University of Washington graduate Alonso Chehade resists deportation order

Thousand of undocumented students graduate from US high schools every year.  Most of them face deportation even if they have lived in the US for much of their life.

Alonso Chehade is one such case.  Chehade was born in Peru and his parents brought him to the US when he was 14. He has lived in Washington state for eight years, where he graduated from high school and completed a business degree at the University of Washington.

But because Chehade arrived in the country without papers, US laws currently offer Chehade no legal way to stay in the country. Chehade is one of thousands of immigrants pressuring the US Congress to pass the DREAM Act. The bill would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented high school graduates who arrived in the country before they were 16.

Chehade is running out of time though, because he is facing deportation within the next 48 hours.  FSRN spoke with him Tuesday.