Thread: Reading grad faces deportation (updated)

Pastor has lived in the United States since he was 3, brought here from his native Guatemala by his parents with an older brother and sister to escape religious and military persecution

There's at least 5 others who need to go back to Guatemala.

If persecution were really the reason, they would have already received asylum in the last 15 years. Bye, I don't buy it.

Dixie

Reading grad's deportation postponed

By Mark Curnutte

November 23, 2010

The potential deportation of 2010 Reading High School graduate Bernard Pastor has been delayed for at least several weeks.

Meghan Dubyak, a spokeswoman in the Washington office of Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, told the Enquirer on Tuesday that Brown received notice that Department of Homeland Security officials – of which Immigration of Customs Enforcement is a part – will hold off on any deportation efforts for several weeks.

ICE confirmed the delay Tuesday night.

A Brown staff member drove from the senator’s Cincinnati office to the Morrow County Jail in Mount Gilead, where Pastor is being held by ICE, to get his signature on a document known as a Request for Assistance, said Firooz Namei, Pastor’s Cincinnati attorney.

The Brown staff member spoke to Pastor and told him of the widespread support for him in Greater Cincinnati, Namei said, and Pastor was moved to tears.

“This is wonderful news,â€