Top HS Grad, 18, Jailed for Deportation

Immigration Law

Posted Jul 27, 2007, 01:44 pm CST
By Martha Neil

When Juan Gomez graduated from high school in Miami this year, everyone he knew expected great things of him. The 18-year-old reportedly is one of the most stellar students ever to attend Killian High—a popular football player, he also graduated among the top 20 in his 780-student class and earned near-perfect scores on his college admission tests.

Now, however, Gomez is jailed in a Broward County detention facility, awaiting deportation to Colombia rather than the start of a new school year in an honors program at Miami Dade College. His crime: staying in this country illegally, with his parents and brother, who moved here when Juan Gomez was 2 years old, reports the Miami Herald.

The case is putting a troubling individual face, for those who know Gomez, on a commonplace issue of immigrants living in this country illegally, and providing an unexpected civics lesson for his friends. More than 400 teens have rallied to his cause, and are petitioning legislators in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., seeking their help with his case.

Gomez is a "poster child for who we should NOT be deporting," writes Eric Krause, a Killian government teacher, in an e-mail to the Miami Herald. "Deporting a student who the entire Killian faculty would describe as one of the best our high school has ever produced is not the American way.''

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Posted by Marsha Lake - 1 year, 3 months, 4 weeks, 1 day, 18 hours, 59 minutes ago

I think Immigration Customs and Enforcement has nothing better to do than to harass a young adult who has obviously worked hard to overcome many obstacles. They are pathetic.
Posted by LonewackoDotCom - 1 year, 3 months, 4 weeks, 1 day, 17 hours, 42 minutes ago

Now, let’s look at what Martha Neil didn’t discuss:

1. Newspapers have written an endless stream of PropagandaPieces in support of the DREAMAct, all of them highly similar.

2. Neil didn’t inquire about the parents’ responsibility.

3. Neil didn’t disclose that every discounted education that goes to an illegal alien (per the DREAMAct) represents one that’s taken away from a U.S. citizen.

4. Neil didn’t discuss that giving such benefits to tens of thosands of people or more will encourage even more illegal immigration.

Should Neil be considered a real reporter?
Posted by Pd - 1 year, 3 months, 4 weeks, 7 hours, 34 minutes ago

@LonewackoDotCom

You are f*cking moron. You, your mother, or any offspring of yours (here’s hoping to god you don’t pass your pathetic genes on) will never be as achieved as that kid.

Instead of griping and whining in jealousy, maybe you can do something yourself to help American education system, like petitioning to ban the infiltration of religion in public schools. American education…hahaha, the whole world laughs at you when you are ignorant enough to need a disclaimer on evolution.

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