Posted on 06/18/2010 11:00:39 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
An undocumented Harvard University student is no longer facing deportation to Mexico after being detained nearly two weeks ago by immigration authorities at a Texas airport, officials said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said late Friday that they would not pursue the deportation of Eric Balderas. The 19-year-old was detained June 7 after he tried to use a university ID card to board a plane from San Antonio to Boston.
ICE spokesman Brian P. Hale told The Boston Globe that Balderas had been granted deferred action, which can be used to halt deportation based on the merits of a case.
Balderas, who previously had used a Mexican passport to board planes but recently lost it, told The Associated Press that he became despondent and thought he was being deported to Mexico immediately, only to be released the next day.
According to a Facebook page set up to highlight his case, Balderas was brought to the U.S. from Mexico by his family at age 4. He said he doesn't remember living in Mexico.
He's studying molecular and cellular biology at Harvard and hopes to become a cancer researcher. He said he qualified for Harvard's privately-funded scholarship package.
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Too bad.
Laws that are not evenly enforced only lead to resentment of law enforcement, further weakening respect for laws in general.
He should have been deported strait from the airport.
Sounds like his courses will serve him well as a drug manufacturer when he decides serving the gangs is the way to make the big bucks.
He’s already been taught that flaunting the law has no consequences for “Immigrants”.
I’m surprised that the clowns at San Antonio Airport noticed.
Just taking the scholarships Americans won't take.
Just think of the kid that did not get into that school, because an illegal alien was admitted.
Luckily, the kid that did not get in was probably liberal, so no harm was done.
The world would be a better place without Harvard in the world. MIT is a different story.
Gee, do you suppose that he knew that he was an illegal? And if he did, why the heck didn't he undertake to do something about it - like applying for a visa, the legal way?
Regards,
just let me know which laws i have to obey... and those i don’t have to.
does the fact that i’m a white male change which laws i have to obey?
yes it does
A nation that does not respect and protect its own borders is a nation without a sense of national identity.
How about the kid stays but Harvard gets deported?
Have you spoken with any MIT graduates lately? Or, seen what they are producing in their labs? MIT has been at the lead of creeping leftism into engineering - an MIT grad (BS and MS) that worked for me was absolutely certain the invention of the internal combustion engine was one of the most evil and destructive inventions of the 20th century - it’s Economics department played a big roll in designing mASScare and is a major proponent of centralized government planning. The engineering schools are full of technology driven socialization, wacky environmentalism and green-mania.
Anchor baby beats law.
I’m sure if he were a C student at a community college, he’d be gone.
flouting, please, not flaunting.
Good. We do have something called prosecutorial discretion in this country. It’s why we don’t ticket grandma for jaywalking. Why would we want to give Mexico our cancer scientists?
He could have legally gotten a visa in no time with his circumstances. Why deport him over bureaucracy? This kid made a dumb choice but it looks like he’s on the right track to being a legal student, and we’re better off with him.
Not everything is so black and white.
OK, lets make that flaunting his ability to flout the law! ;-)
ok
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