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#1
07-27-2007, 11:07 AM
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This happened recently in South Florida.
Pray for this kid.


http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_207223225.html

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Killian Students Band Together To Save Juan Gomez
Juan Gomez Facebook Site--
The Dream Act: Help Bring Back Juan Gomez

(CBS4) SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE Killian senior high students banded together Thursday night to fight for one of their own. Their classmate is facing deportation after an immigration raid--often rumored--but rarely seen in South Florida.

The Killian graduate, aced 15 of his advanced placement classes, is a member of several honors society, excelled in football and got near-perfect SAT scores. However, Colombian born Juan Gomez, 18, is sitting inside a detention center in Broward County, awaiting deportation.

His family is also in the same predicament. His parents had a deportation order issued in their name back in 2002.

Gomez used cyberspace to inform his friends that he had been detained, and now those friends are using cyberspace to push a political campaign to save him from being kicked out of the country. Gomez text messaged his friends while he was being taken away in an immigration van. Now through the use of the social networking site Facebook, his friends have created a following of support for Gomez, To be exact, more than 400 students and supporters have joined the fight to support The Dream Act, which is a law that would allow immigrant students who live in the U.S. to stay, based on the premise that, as youngsters, they had no choice but to follow their parents when they made the decision to enter this country.

"It's hard to get 400 teenagers to get an interest in anything, let alone a political agenda, and one has galvanized these people into taking action," said friend Scott Eflenbein.

His friends say law enforcement should be focusing on criminals and not someone they believe is a great asset to this country.

However, Immigration officials say they make criminal cases priorities but cannot ignore a case of illegal immigrant such as his family.

You can also watch the news clip here:
http://cwsfl.trb.com/news/?track=nav

just scroll down to "Classmates fight to keep teen deported to Colombia after living in the U.S. illegaly for 17 years." in the media player window.
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#2
07-27-2007, 11:20 AM
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Don't Colombians get instant amnesty if they manage to touch US land?
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07-27-2007, 11:22 AM
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doesn't seem like it.

I just posted this since it comes from my neck of the woods.

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07-27-2007, 11:54 AM
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Don't Colombians get instant amnesty if they manage to touch US land?
that is cubans
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07-27-2007, 11:56 AM
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by the way the only way he got caught there was a deportation order for his parents so when they came to get his parents he got caught so i think as long as you dont live with people who have deportation orders you should be fine.
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07-27-2007, 12:51 PM
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Don't Colombians get instant amnesty if they manage to touch US land?
hahaha i wished
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#7
07-27-2007, 01:33 PM
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i don't have facebook but someone who does should contact the person running his page to get all his supporters to stop by here.
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#8
07-27-2007, 08:59 PM
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That kinda makes me regret deleting my Facebook and Myspace pages. That's scary stuff.
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#9
07-27-2007, 11:05 PM
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I just sent the creator a message to put down our website on the group page.
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07-27-2007, 11:07 PM
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Ok nevermind... I didn't read the whole page... our website is already on it.
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