Two Undocumented Immigrants Who Sought Arrest are Released and Face Deportation

Written By Elizabeth Llorente
Published November 25, 2011
Fox News Latino

Two immigrants who were detained for more than two weeks after they walked into a Border Patrol office in Alabama and declared they were undocumented have been released.

Isaac Barrera, 20, and Jonathan Perez, 24, were released Wednesday and are scheduled to appear before an Immigration Court judge on Dec. 2.

The men, who live in California, traveled to Alabama to risk arrest in order to challenge the state’s controversial hard-line immigration law and call attention to the need for immigration reform, they said.

Perez, who came with his family from Colombia when he was 3-years-old, said it was liberating to put himself in a situation that undocumented people like himself always dread.

“I was prepared for this,â€