Posted on Friday, 11.20.09

Miami Dade College students protest deportation plans

Dozens of Miami Dade College students and some of their professors staged a rally Thursday demanding that federal immigration authorities free two Venezuelan brothers facing deportation.

The Kendall Campus rally launched a campaign aimed at putting pressure on the federal government to release Jesús and Guillermo Reyes and delay or cancel their deportations and those of their parents and brother Marcos, who are in hiding.

Jesús, 21, was taking criminal justice courses at Miami Dade College and was the 2007-08 Kendall Campus Student Government Association president. Guillermo, 25, recently received a computer-animation degree at the same college.

-- ALFONSO CHARDY

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