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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jessica Colotl is an undocumented immigrant and a senior at Kennesaw State University who sparked widespread debate over the issue of immigration after she was arrested for driving without a license and faces deportation. Colotl, age 21 as of May 2010, was brought from Mexico by her parents into the US when she was either 10 years old or 11 years old. Colotl has become the center of much heated debate over immigration policy, including the enrollment of non-citizens in state universities and discussion about the controversial law 287(g) which allowed police to turn her over to immigration enforcement. Colotl`s arrest took place in a climate of intense debate over immigration law because Arizona had recently passed a controversial law allowing police to ask for proof of legal residency from anyone they have reasonable suspicion against for being an illegal alien (race may explicitly not be a factor in deciding reasonable suspicion), and have already stopped for some other crime. Proponents of both sides of the immigration debate rallied around the issue of Colotl`s arrest, which has become a `flashpoint` in the intense debate over immigration.