A Harvard graduate who lived in California has self-deported again to Mexico along with his U.S. citizen husband after being advised to cancel their honeymoon as a result of detention fears, an LA information outlet has reported.
Francisco Hernandez-Corona, 34, graduated from Harvard in 2013 after crossing the border as a toddler illegally twice, leading to a everlasting ban from the U.S. He married his U.S. citizen husband final yr, however officers advised him that wouldn’t change his immigration standing, NBC Los Angeles reported this week.
The homosexual couple determined to self-deport earlier this spring amid President Trump’s deportation push and after their attorneys advised them to cancel their honeymoon to Puerto Rico, fearing Hernandez-Corona might be detained.
“That’s when I looked at him and said, ‘Then, I guess we have to leave,’” Hernandez-Corona advised NBC Los Angeles. “There isn’t any reason for us to stay here.”
The Trump administration is paying $1,000 to people who find themselves in america illegally and return to their residence nation voluntarily. The Division of Homeland Safety can be paying for journey help.
Hernandez-Corona reportedly got here to the US illegally twice, the primary time on a vacationer visa as a 6-year-old along with his mom and the second by way of the border as a 10-year-old. His household finally settled in Lennox, a neighborhood exterior of Los Angeles, earlier than he obtained acceptance into Harvard in 2009.
After his mom died throughout his senior yr of highschool, Hernandez-Corona mentioned his academics took care of him by way of commencement. NBC Los Angeles reported that his father “sent him to cross through the desert with a ‘coyote,’ a migrant smuggler,” as a 10-year-old.
“Because of the choice my dad made when I was a child, U.S. law says it doesn’t matter,” Hernandez-Corona advised the information outlet. “I don’t care that you were 10, I don’t care if you were bleeding in the desert, or crying in the desert alone. I don’t care that you didn’t choose this; you can no longer stay in a place that you call home.”
Hernandez-Corona bumped into processing delays of over a decade when making use of for visas after graduating from Harvard. He utilized below President Obama’s Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals and the Violence Towards Ladies Act for girls and little one abuse victims.
Hernandez-Corona and his husband flew to Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s west coast, three weeks in the past, NBC Los Angeles reported.
“(Mexicans) all were saying, ‘Welcome back home! You belong here,’” Hernandez-Corona advised the outlet.
