{"id":2516,"date":"2011-10-28T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2011-10-28T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T19:00:41","slug":"dream-act-eligible-youth-facing-deportation-is-a-fugitive-feds-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/28\/dream-act-eligible-youth-facing-deportation-is-a-fugitive-feds-say\/","title":{"rendered":"DREAM Act-Eligible Youth Facing Deportation Is A “Fugitive,” Feds Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Felipe Matos \/ SWER<\/p>

DREAM Act activist Juan Rodriguez with Students Working for Equal Rights (SWER) paints "I Am Shamir" on t-shirts before the protest for Shamir Ali in Pompano Beach, Oct. 25, 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n

Immigration officials say their decision to deport a Palm Beach College student is consistent with a new policy prioritizing the deportation of those committing crimes because a judge ordered the student deported as a child.<\/p>\n

That makes 25-year-old Shamir Ali<\/a> a fugitive, said Nestor Yglesias, spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami.<\/p>\n

Ali ignored the order and stayed in Florida to attend college and work.<\/p>\n

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And when Miami resident Ali was caught in the middle of a non-immigration workplace raid, Yglesias said, \u201cICE officers determined that [Ali] was a fugitive alien with a final order of removal from an immigration judge.” Which means Ali\u2019s apprehension “is consistent with ICE\u2019s priorities to target convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives, recent border crossers and illegal re-entrants,” Yglesias said.<\/p>\n

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