Family outraged about deportation
By: Erin Sherbert
Examiner Staff Writer
March 2, 2010


A San Francisco family on Monday tearfully pleaded with authorities in one last effort to spare them from being deported to Australia after their undocumented teenage son allegedly punched a kid and took 46 cents from him during an after-school program.

As first reported by The Examiner, two members of the Washington family, the mother, Tracey, and her 13-year-old son, who’s not being named because he’s a juvenile, have been ordered to leave the country by Friday after the teen was charged with robbery, extortion and assault. They are taking her 5-year-old son with them.

Charles Washington, who is a U.S. citizen and the stepfather of the two children, sat with his family Monday afternoon, explaining how they were victims of San Francisco’s “flawedâ€