The daughter of an Egyptian national accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at pro-Israel protesters was an award-winning student hoping to study medicine in college.
Habiba Soliman had applied for a scholarship from The Denver Gazette, and shared how much she has learned and grown as a person since immigrating from Kuwait two years ago.
'Coming to the USA has fundamentally changed me,' Habiba said in the essay.
'I learned to adapt to new things even if it was hard. I learned to work under pressure and improve rapidly in a very short amount of time.
But now, she and her family are now set to be deported, following father Mohamed Soliman's arrest over the weekend.
