The statement, issued through five law firms and a management company, says 21 Savage, born She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, is from the United Kingdom and that he lost his legal immigration status in 2006, when he was barely a teenager.
"As a minor, his family overstayed their work visas, and he, like almost two million other children, was left without legal status through no fault of his own," Charles H. Kuck, a lawyer for Abraham-Joseph, said in a statement issued Monday.
In a separate statement issued Tuesday, Abraham-Joseph's representatives explicitly compared his situation to the roughly 700,000 young people who are legally in the U.S. because of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The Trump administration's attempts to repeal DACA have been blocked repeatedly in court.
"These 'Dreamers' come from all walks of life and every ethnicity," the Tuesday statement says.
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