Free Republic

WASHINGTON -- Immigration officials have granted Miami Killian Senior High School graduate Juan Gomez and his family a 45-day reprieve from being deported to their native Colombia. They were released late Wednesday afternoon. Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, said the reprieve would give Congress enough time to decide whether they will take up legislation that would keep Gomez and his brother, Alex, in the U.S. News of the temporary stay came as a half-dozen of his classmates continued to work the halls of Congress lobbying the teen's case.