Harvard Student Who Took Dying Mother To Mexico Can Return To America
Harvard Student Who Took Dying Mother To Mexico Can Return To America
AP | By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ & PETER ORSI
Posted: 10/14/2014 5:56 pm EDT Updated: 14 minutes ago
LOS REYES LA PAZ, Mexico (AP) -- Only hours after the publication of an Associated Press story on his case Tuesday, the U.S. government issued a humanitarian visa enabling the return of a Harvard University student who broke immigration rules by taking his dying mother to Mexico.
Dario Guerrero was born in Mexico and moved with his family to California when he was 2. The Obama administration granted him and hundreds of thousands of other young immigrants a reprieve from deportation two years ago.
But these people can't leave the U.S. without government approval. And Guerrero's mother was dying of cancer.
Desperate to save her, Guerrero took his mother to clinics in Mexico before getting that approval. She died there in August, and he's been stuck since then. The government denied his initial request to return, saying he effectively deported himself by taking his mother across the border before the paperwork was done on his approval request.
Guerrero has been languishing since then at his grandparents' home outside Mexico City, saying he's hoping for another chance to return home to his family in California and complete his studies in Massachusetts.
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