Via Miami Herald
Family gets deportation reprieve
A high-profile campaign to stop the deportation of Juan and Alex Gomez seemed to have paid off when the teens and their parents were released from an immigration detention center on a 45-day reprieve.
WASHINGTON -- Juan Gomez and his family walked out of an immigration detention center Wednesday night -- free on a 45-day pass after a publicity campaign launched by his classmates reached Congress, the White House and federal immigration officials.Though the family could still be deported to their native Colombia, they celebrated Wednesday night.
