Feds order beloved teacher deported

Hell, if he had just snuck across the Mexican border, maybe he would have been able to stay. How pathetic is this?

"Feb. 20, 2005 -- Obain Attouoman is a Boston special education teacher who is beloved by his students, respected by his peers and valued by school administrators, but federal immigration authorities have ordered him to be deported.

Attouoman, a native of Ivory Coast who has taught in the Boston public schools for more than a decade, missed a hearing with a judge on his application for political asylum in June 2001, because he says he misread the handwritten date on the notice he received.

After more than three years of trying to get a new hearing, he has been ordered to leave the country by March 4. He was originally ordered to leave by Feb. 11, but after hundreds of students, parents and fellow teachers demonstrated outside the Boston office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Feb. 9, he was granted a three-week reprieve...."

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=504775&page=1

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