Accepted at UC Berkeley, student and her family get reprieve from deportation to Peru

[AsahinaKimi]

An 18-year-old honors student who was set to be deported to Peru got a welcome surprise Thursday when immigration authorities granted her a months-long reprieve.

Just hours before a planned rally for Lowell High School graduate Elizabeth Lee, her 16-year-old brother, Felix, and their mother, all of whom were set to be deported Jan. 19, the family learned that their deportation was being put on hold.

Immigration authorities said they would delay the deportation date until July, leaving the family time to work with a lawyer on their case.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_17026710

[Swamp Rat]

1. I hope they get help

:kick:

[dkf]

2. This should put to rest the idea that immigration violations only affect Hispanics.

It is not about racism but about people following and respecting the rules of the country they are visiting.

[Nikia]

3. Peru is a Spanish speaking country

That would make them Hispanic. Hispanics can be of any race. I know the term usually refers to multiracial people, but not necessarily.

[dkf]

4. Those people are Asian.

That would be like calling me or Barack Obama Hawaiian. Really we aren't.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. There are asian hispanics

One is race the other ethnicity. The are white, black, and brown Hispanics too.

Hawaiian is racial not ethnic.

[AsahinaKimi]

6. UPDATED

Student Elizabeth Lee faces deportation - mom held
Elizabeth Lee was about to graduate from Lowell High School in San Francisco last May and was making plans for her first semester at UC Berkeley when disaster struck: Her mother was arrested.

It wasn't the first time that Melissa Lee, an undocumented immigrant, had been caught by immigration authorities. But this arrest hit her children too, and overnight, Elizabeth went from anticipating her first days in college to facing deportation to Peru, where she was born.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/07/BAAR1H5FU9.DTL