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Mexican Immigrant Arrested in Boston
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Posted on 04/13/2006 11:37:34 AM PDT by MadeInAmerica

Just doing jobs Americans Won't...

Mexican Immigrant Arrested in Boston Apr 13 1:35 PM US/Eastern Email this story

BOSTON

A young illegal immigrant who became a cause celebre in Minnesota after secretly living in a high school for weeks has been arrested here on home invasion charges, months after he was supposed to have left the country.

Francisco Javier Serrano, 22, had waved goodbye to supporters and journalists who saw him off at the Minneapolis airport in January, but he apparently never boarded his plane for his home country of Mexico.

Two weeks ago, police arrested him after finding him with a knife in an apartment in Boston's North End, struggling with the tenant, who was unharmed, The Boston Globe reported Thursday. He remained in Suffolk County Jail facing home invasion charges and eventual deportation.

Serrano, who overstayed a 2002 tourist visa to live with his father and attend high school in suburban Minneapolis, was embraced by Minnesotans after he was discovered sleeping in the school's auditorium in January 2005 and told how he had spent weeks hiding there, foraging for cafeteria food and showering in the locker room.

Students handed out "Free Francisco" T-shirts, and a developer gave him a place to live and hired an immigration lawyer for him.

Last fall, a federal judge ruled that Serrano must leave the country but gave him until Jan. 5 to do so. That day Serrano went to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, but his plane ticket was never used.

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To: DH
The punk is a three time looser.

But perhaps he can spell.

21 posted on 04/13/2006 2:23:15 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: DCPatriot
"The punk is a three time looser. But perhaps he can spell."

Congratulations, you caught a typo. Didn't seem to catch anything else about the article. Can't see the forest because of the trees?
22 posted on 04/13/2006 5:00:34 PM PDT by DH (The government writes no bill that does not line the pockets of special interests.)
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