He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college. Now he is deported.

Two brothers from Gaithersburg were deported to their native El Salvador on Wednesday in what their attorney says was the fastest deportation process he has ever seen.

Lizandro Claros Saravia, 19, is a standout soccer player who had secured a scholarship to play college soccer in North Carolina. His brother, Diego, 22, took extra classes to graduate from Quince Orchard High School on time and “has a heart of gold,” a former teacher said.

They entered the country illegally in 2009, however, and although they initially won reprieves from deportation, their efforts to renew those stays were repeatedly denied.

The brothers have no criminal records and would not have been a priority for deportation by the Obama administration, said Matthew Bourke, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

President Trump’s administration, in contrast, has made clear that any undocumented immigrant is subject to being expelled from this country. And so, on the same day that the White House endorsed a proposal to curtail legal immigration to the United States, the brothers were put on a plane to San Salvador.

“These kids did nothing wrong — but that is too low a bar. These kids excelled,” said Heather Bradley, who taught Diego’s English as a Second Language class at Quince Orchard and worked with Lizandro on the literary magazine.

Lizandro’s soccer coach said he was supposed to leave Wednesday to begin preseason practices at the two-year Louisburg College.

On Friday, the brothers were detained by ICE agents in Baltimore after a regular check-in. Lizandro Claros Saravia told the agents that he was planning to attend college on a scholarship, said Nick Katz, senior manager of legal services at CASA de Maryland, who is representing the pair.

“The ICE agents told me they were deporting the kids because Lizandro got into college, and that showed they intended to stay in the U.S.,” Katz said.

Bourke said that is not how ICE conducts enforcement actions.

“They were issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2012. That’s why they were removed,” Bourke said. The brothers were granted a stay of removal in 2013, but subsequent applications for stays were denied.

Bourke said decisions about individual cases — including the timing of deportations — are made “on a case-by-case basis, meaning they can be done differently.” Many Trump supporters have applauded the increase in deportations, saying no one in this country illegally has the right to stay.


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wow

I feel apprehensive going to ASC now.

Wait, how did they win reprieve if they are not under DACA?

What does that mean? Did hey get a social security? Did they get a GC? I'm so confused?

And it's messed up because he got into college he gets deported. Really who is the officer ???

they probably started asylum cases.

They didn't have DACA, nor anything.

No surprise.

Have there been any cases yet of people who had DACA, no criminal records, but still got deported?

They entered the US in 2009, and so did not qualify for DACA.

They were able to stay while they fought an asylum case. They were checking in yearly with ICE. Case denied, and ordered removed.

That explains it. We should not be affected, move this post somewhere else.

Have you noticed all the stories lately have been about people from El Salvador what's going on.

First of all come on 2009? What's next undocumented person getting deported has been in the U.S. since 2016. It's time to be realistic about our expectation of who to feel sorry for . I've been in this country since 1993 brought here when I was 5 years old. The 90s was a different time and yes I deserve to be here more then someone who came illegally at the age of 19 last year .

I say pass any enforcement measure stop legal and illegal Immigration I don't care aslong as you fix the status of people already here in the United States and that have been here for generations!