{"id":2352,"date":"2011-10-24T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2011-10-31T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T20:13:56","slug":"feds-will-deport-florida-dream-act-student-despite-white-house-priority-on-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/24\/feds-will-deport-florida-dream-act-student-despite-white-house-priority-on-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Will Deport Florida DREAM Act Youth Despite White House Priority on Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bangladesh native, Shamir Ali, now 25, was picked up in a workplace raid in Miami last week and now faces deportation. Ali arrived to Florida when he was seven years old and is DREAM Act eligible.<\/p><\/div>\n

In August 2011, the Obama administration\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0it would prioritize deporting people convicted of crimes.<\/p>\n

That meant shifting resources away from low-priority cases\u2014such as undocumented children who came to the U.S. at a young age, or DREAM Act kids<\/a>, and others.<\/p>\n

One idea behind the new policy was to protect\u00a0DREAM Act-eligible kids<\/a>\u00a0from deportation in case Congress were to soon approve the federal bill that would provide a path to citizenship to some undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

But last Friday, 25-year-old Shamir Ali, a DREAM Act-eligible\u00a0undocumented Florida resident, was denied deportation relief by the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office Director, Marc Moore (see the letter from Moore below).<\/p>\n

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