{"id":9821,"date":"2017-08-23T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:17:05","slug":"lizandro-and-diego-now-22-used-fraudulent-visas-and-passports-to-come-to-the-united-states-in-2009-now-they-have-been-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/lizandro-and-diego-now-22-used-fraudulent-visas-and-passports-to-come-to-the-united-states-in-2009-now-they-have-been-deported\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizandro and Diego, now 22, used fraudulent visas and passports to come to the United States in 2009, now they have been deported"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Lizandro and Diego, now 22, used fraudulent visas and passports to come to the United States in 2009”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/strong><\/em>
\nAugust 22, 2017<\/p>\n

He had a college scholarship, but was deported. Now the former soccer star must build a life in El Salvador.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAN SALVADOR \u2014 Lizandro Claros Saravia was supposed to be at college in North Carolina by now. At soccer practice. At the library.<\/p>\n

Instead, the 19-year-old soccer star from Germantown, Md., is hundreds of miles away, in a sweltering Central American nation he barely recognizes and sometimes fears.<\/p>\n

U.S. immigration officials swiftly deported him and his older brother, Diego, on Aug. 2, days after Lizandro told them during a routine check-in that he had a scholarship to attend Louisburg College.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what we\u2019re going to do,\u201d Lizandro, his gaze flat, said in an interview here last week as he and his brother waited to pick up their 83-year-old grandfather \u2014 who had been visiting the United States on a visa when his grandsons were deported \u2014 from the airport. \u201cI feel like in this country, I don\u2019t have a future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The expulsion of the brothers, both of whom graduated from Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg and neither of whom had been accused of any wrongdoing once in the United States, outraged Democratic lawmakers and advocates for immigrants, as well as their teachers, friends and teammates.<\/p>\n

The expulsion of Lizandro Claros Saravia, 19, left, and his older brother, Diego Claros Saravia, 22, has outraged Democratic lawmakers as well as their teachers and friends. (Sarah L. Voisin\/The Washington Post)
\nLizandro and Diego, now 22, used fraudulent visas and passports to come to the United States in 2009 and reunite with their family; some of whom were also here illegally. Lizandro was 10, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement; his brother was 14.<\/p>\n

They were ordered deported in 2012 and granted a stay in 2013. Two subsequent requests for stays were denied. But with their clean records and high school diplomas, the brothers were not a priority for deportation under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

Under President Trump, however, the \u201chandcuffs\u201d are off, in the words of ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan. Anyone in violation of immigration law can be targeted for deportation. Officials say that they want to reduce the United States\u2019s population of undocumented immigrants, currently about 11 million, and dissuade would-be migrants from making the illegal, and sometimes deadly, journey north…. MORE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  “Lizandro and Diego, now 22, used fraudulent visas and passports to come to the United States in 2009” Washington Post August 22, 2017 He had a college scholarship, but was deported. Now the former soccer star must build a life in El Salvador. SAN SALVADOR \u2014 Lizandro Claros Saravia was supposed to be at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9857,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions\/9857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}