ROCKVILLE, Md. - A standout student who was facing deportation has been released from federal custody and granted a one year reprieve.
Jorge Steven Acuña, 19, and his parents were arrested at their Germantown home last week after immigration authorities turned down their request for political asylum.
He grew up in Montgomery County and studied at Montgomery College.
Before their release Wednesday, the three family members had been at a detention facility on the Eastern Shore.
"What I've lived through these past couple days is something that I was never really expecting," Acuña says. "You're brought to this country by your parents, and all you're willing to do here is get an education, have a dream, set some goals up."
4 comments:
Try illegally entering ANY OTHER country and see what happens. Just imagine trying to sneak into Syria, Iran of Pakistan for example. So SICK of this crap.
Exactly 2:01....blah,blah,blah...we don't want to hear it. In fact. we've heard enough. Get legal or get out of our country.
GO HOME! All of you.
Apply legally. Then you will be welcome.
This is crap. They wouldn't have to live in "fear" if they came here legally. They have never even attempted to become citizens. Put them on the next bus heading south and deport them!
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