{"id":2589,"date":"2011-10-31T14:58:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:57:30","slug":"palm-beach-college-student-facing-deportation-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/31\/palm-beach-college-student-facing-deportation-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida College Student Facing Deportation Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2606\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Bangladesh native, Shamir Ali, now 25, was picked up in a workplace immigration raid in Miami last week and now faces deportation. Ali arrived to Florida when he was seven years old and is DREAM Act eligible.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/shamir.jpeg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2606\" title=\"shamir\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/shamir.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/shamir.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/shamir-138x103.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Courtesy of SWER<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">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<p>College student Shamir Ali has been released from a Florida detention center after being told he would be deported to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after Nestor Yglesias, spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in\u00a0Miami <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/28\/dream-act-eligible-youth-facing-deportation-is-a-fugitive-feds-say\/\">told StateImpact Florida\u00a0Ali was a &#8220;fugitive alien&#8221;<\/a> because he ignored a previous deportation order.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are letting Ali, 25, stay in the U.S. for one year with supervision, according to DREAM Act activist Felipe Matos with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swer.org\/\">Students Working for Equal Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/24\/feds-will-deport-florida-dream-act-student-despite-white-house-priority-on-criminals\/\">Feds Will Deport Florida DREAM Act Youth Despite White House Priority on Criminals<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/28\/dream-act-eligible-youth-facing-deportation-is-a-fugitive-feds-say\/\">DREAM Act-Eligible Youth Facing Deportation Is A \u201cFugitive,\u201d Feds\u00a0Say<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/17\/who-decides-which-undocumented-students-can-stay-who-must-go\/\">Who Decides Which Undocumented Students Can Stay, Who Must\u00a0Go?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/dream_act_girl-full-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/topic\/dream-act\/\">Your Guide To The DREAM\u00a0Act<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>In August, the Obama administration announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/immigration-update-maximizing-public-safety-and-better-focusing-resources\">a new policy<\/a> to place more priority on deporting undocumented criminals, and less priority on undocumented students who came to the U.S. at a young age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/dream-act\/\">DREAM Act<\/a> activists protested Ali&#8217;s deportation order last week, calling the decision a &#8220;clear contradiction&#8221; to the Obama administration&#8217;s latest immigration policy. The DREAM Act is a proposed federal bill which would make it easier for undocumented\u00a0students\u00a0to earn legal status in the U.S. if they came to the country while young and had plans to attend a U.S. college or serve in the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>StateImpact Florida did this story in August about how <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/17\/who-decides-which-undocumented-students-can-stay-who-must-go\/\">a lack of clear federal policy<\/a> opened the door for influence peddling in the immigration system. The latest policy memo from the White House was meant to close that door.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College student Shamir Ali has been released from a Florida detention center after being told he would be deported to Bangladesh. The decision comes after Nestor Yglesias, spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in\u00a0Miami told StateImpact Florida\u00a0Ali was a &#8220;fugitive alien&#8221; because he ignored a previous deportation order. 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