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High School Student Without Visa in Removal Proceedings

By immigrationprof

From CNN

High school student Manuel Bartsch is facing deportation to his native Germany after discovering that his American step-grandfather never completed paperwork eight years ago to make his stay legal in the United States.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/03/immigrant.student.ap/index.html

KJ

Bartsch, who has been jailed since Christmas, is set to appear at a bail hearing Wednesday in a Cleveland federal court. An immigration judge last week stopped him from being deported until he can have a hearing before an immigration court.

Classmates and neighbors in the northwest Ohio village where Bartsch lives — he has always assumed he is an American citizen — have rallied behind him while questioning the wisdom of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.