Deportation Stay Came Too Late for Some
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Marlon Roberto Cortes was stocking shelves in the frozen food section of a suburban Boston supermarket when he was summoned to the back office.
An immigration officer was waiting for him and asked to see his ID, which he didn’t have. The 20-year-old Honduran was told there was an order to deport him.
Cortes missed, by three months, President Obama’s decision last week to allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants no older than 30 with high school degrees and no criminal history a chance to stay and work in the country.
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“The country in which I could have had the chance to get ahead is the United States,” he added. “I did everything I had to do to get that, and I don’t understand why they wouldn’t let me … I feel more American than Honduran.”
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Two of the people who were deported before the stay was announced have their stories told in this article. Nobody know how many thousands they represent.