Marlon Morraz: Deportation

Immigration Workshop Dept: Now is my chance, he said after picking up an application form at an immigration workshop hosted by a Miami congressman. I m pretty elated. Now I have a future, according to The Star. The deferred action for childhood arrivals permits shield them from deportation for at least two years as long as they were younger than 16 when they came to the U.S., have lived in the country since June 15, 2007, have not been convicted of a felony, and are not older than 30 and mIAMI Marlon Morraz, 19, an undocumented immigrant from Nicaragua, wasted no time to sign up for temporary legal status in the United States under relaxed deportation rules that took effect on Wednesday. Morraz, who has been living under the radar since he came to the country when he was 11, is among hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants expected to file applications with the Department of Homeland Security under the new rules. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.