Student’s Deportation Case to Be Reopened
A U.S. Immigration judge in San Diego has granted a motion to reopen the case of a Santa Cruz High School student who faced deportation to Mexico.
The department of Homeland Security’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement had joined the lawyer for Alfredo Salas, 16, in requesting that his case be reopened.
Salas was born in Mexico but grew up in Santa Cruz.
When he was returning from a visit to Mexico in 2001, he was detained at the U.S. border.
In his recent order to reopen the case, Judge Kenneth A. Bagley “strongly admonish[ed]” the Department of Homeland Security for giving the family “erroneous information” that led to detention for Salas and almost caused him to be deported.
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