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Threat of deportation a battle for GHS alum
Nonviolent illegal immigrants fight to stay, work in U.S.
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Maribel Gonzalez was inches from being another statistic — one of the almost 2 million immigrants deported under the administration of President Barack Obama. “I actually remember when I was processed at the detention center,” she said of the now-shuttered Gainesville facility run by Corrections Corp. of America. A felony conviction on the 26-year-old’s record made her case for deportation so cut-and-dried, the officer had two words for her, she recounted.