Teacher Deported

Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, acting on a judge's order issued in 2004, this week deported a popular Boston high school teacher. Obain Attouoman [read: oh-ben ' ah-two'-ah-min] came to the United States in 1992 fleeing repression against teachers in his native Ivory Coast. In 2005, following protests by staff and students from his school, and intervention by Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, the math teacher was granted a two year stay of the judge's order. But since March 2007, he has been living and working in legal limbo. Dave Goodman has our story.

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