Posted on 08/22/2017 1:40:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Lizandro Claros Saravia was supposed to be at college in North Carolina by now. At soccer practice. At the library.
Instead, the 19-year-old soccer star from Germantown is hundreds of miles away, in a sweltering Central American nation he barely recognizes and sometimes fears.
U.S. immigration officials swiftly deported him and his older brother, Diego, on Aug. 2, days after Lizandro told them during a routine check-in that he had a scholarship to attend Louisburg College.
Lizandro and Diego, now 22, used fraudulent visas and passports to come to the United States in 2009 and reunite with their family; some of whom were also here illegally. Lizandro was 10, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement; his brother was 14.
They were ordered deported in 2012 and granted a stay of deportation in 2013. Two subsequent requests for stays were denied. But with their clean records and high school diplomas, the brothers were not a priority for deportation under the Obama administration.
Under President Trump, however, the handcuffs are off, in the words of ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan. Anyone in violation of immigration law can be targeted for deportation. Officials say they want to reduce the nations population of undocumented immigrants, currently about 11 million, and dissuade would-be migrants from making the illegal, and sometimes deadly, journey north.
The expulsion of the brothers outraged Democratic lawmakers and advocates for immigrants, as well as their teachers, friends and teammates.
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Should have done it legally in the first place...
And certainly not qualify for a scholarship. But that goes without say... or at least it should.
Uh, no. He was supposed to be in El Salvador.
Boo-hoo.
I had affordable health insurance, but I lost it.
Tell me another sob story about an illegal invader here on false papers, pretense and lies.
Blech.
title should read: “Trump Sends Soccer Star to El Salvador to Help Rebuild Country!”
You know things are going well when the sob stories the Washington Post runs to generate sympathy for criminal invaders look like Donald Trump reelection campaign ads.
Now perhaps someone hear legally can get the scholarship. I hope so.
Apparently he’s not from Germantown, he is from El Salvador and now he is back where he belongs.
Oh my God. I feel a tear coming on. No, it was just a squirt from the lemon I squeezed into my cocktail.
Don’t give me this hard luck horse$hit...
If ALL the “immigrants’ were here on college scholarships I would not give a $hit.
BUT THEY’RE NOT
TOO MANY ARE FREELOADERS AND CRIMINALS
How does someone with a scholarship get departed anyway? This is they type that should be able to stay!
HERE legally. I promise I know my homonyms
Good for you pal. Your soccer skills will go a long way in El Salvador - big fish, small pond, etc...
IDIOTS IN I.C.E. ARE GOING AFTER THESE HARD-LUCK CASES TO MAKE HEADLINES
They could easily have focused their attention on some criminal to deport.
In my best Marlon Brando, I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum.
Good that scholarship can go to one of the ones for whom it was really meant...a deserving American citizen student...
Wow. College scholarship, sports team.
Was he also and aspiring DJ?
Zero sympathy.
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