Commentary: Video Captures School's Heartwarming Celebration for Employee's Successful Citizenship Test

It’s a story that proves immigration isn’t always a divisive issue — even in the deepest of deep-red states.

Yanet Lopez is the cafeteria manager at Deer Creek Prairie Vale Elementary School in Edmond, Oklahoma. According to CNNWire, she’s an immigrant from Cuba who moved to Edmond from Houston for better employment opportunities.

“When I was a child, I have a dream, like, say, Martin Luther King, right?” Lopez told KOCO-TV. “My dream was come here to this great country.”

Not only did she come, but she’s also been a mainstay at Deer Creek Prairie Vale. And, this past week, she passed her citizenship test.

This is the reception she got from the students and staff at the school:

The students chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” as she walked down the hallway, one step closer to being a U.S. citizen.

“All the students give me hugs,” she said. “It was exciting. … I was crying like a baby, and the teachers were crying.”

“Every morning Ms. Yanet walks into the office and proclaims ‘Good Morning, Pretty Ladies’ and with a smile and a laugh she always starts the day with a positive message!” the school posted on its