Posted on 02/13/2006 10:31:53 AM PST by LouAvul
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- A young man from Mexico who made national news last year when he was found living in a Minnesota high school is apparently on the lam after failing to board a plane back to his homeland Mexico.
A judge had ordered Francisco Javier Serrano, 22, to leave the United States because he was here illegally. On January 5, he hugged supporters at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and walked toward the security screeners.
But his plane ticket was never used and he hasn't been seen since, by friends in Minnesota or family in Mexico.
Serrano's attorney, Herbert Ignabugo, said he is upset with his client, who is now "a fugitive from the law," he said. He said he knows what he'll say if he sees Serrano again: "What's the matter with you, boy?"
Ignabugo said phone messages and e-mails to Serrano have gone unanswered.
In January 2005, a custodian at Apple Valley High School discovered Serrano sleeping in the school's auditorium. Serrano said he'd been sleeping there three weeks because he needed a warm place to stay.
Serrano had entered the United States on a tourist visa in 2002. It expired six months later, and immigration officials said Serrano was here illegally.
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"A judge had ordered Francisco Javier Serrano, 22, to leave the United States because he was here illegally."
They can do that?
This illegal ... like all the others ...needs to be hunted down ... NO BAG LIMIT!
This is too stupid for words!
He's one of millions also ordered to leave who thumbed their noses at our laws. Notice the government never tells us how many others were ordered to leave but didn't.
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