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This resolution honors the memory of Jereima "Jeri" Bustamante, a Panama-born immigrant who embodied the American Dream through her educational and professional achievements. The resolution highlights Bustamante's journey, including her graduation from Miami Beach Senior High School and Florida International University, where she earned degrees in Communication and Media Sciences and Public Administration while working to pay for her education. It recognizes her professional success, which included an internship at a Miami television station and serving as press secretary to Governor Rick Scott, and notes her tragic death in a boating accident on April 8, 2018. The Senate resolution formally honors her life, offers condolences to her family and friends, affirms the possibility of achieving the American Dream through hard work, and encourages future scholarship recipients to carry on her legacy through the Jereima Bustamante Memorial Scholarship, which supports graduates of her high school in pursuing higher education.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/162/all-info