Bring Rodrigo Home: 4th graders rally for deported classmate

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Nine-year-old Rodrigo Guzmán saw his life turned upside down in January, when he and his parents were told they couldn’t return home to Berkeley, Calif. The fourth grader's family had gone to visit relatives in Mexico, but were stopped when they tried to re-enter the U.S. with expired visas. They can’t legally reapply for five years.

The surprise clobbered Rodrigo. He'd been in the U.S. since before his second birthday, so Mexico is a foreign country to him. "Every day he asks when we're going back home,” his mother Reyna Díaz said, according to the Contra Costa Times. “He doesn't want to eat. It's very hard on him.”

His classmates at Jefferson Elementary School in California want Rodrigo back, too. The students, aided by concerned mother Mable Yee, launched a campaign to return Rodrigo and his family to the U.S., pressuring local politicians, members of Congress and President Barack Obama.

“The children are very determined to do something about Rodrigo,” Yee told The Huffington Post. “It’s exciting as a parent to watch this.”
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Video clip and more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/bring-rodrigo-home-campaign-berkeley_n_2952811.html

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