Published March 14. 2021 10:29PM
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) A Guatemalan man has left the Massachusetts church he lived in for more than three years to avoid deportation after being granted a reprieve from federal immigration officials.
Lucio Perez stepped of the First Congregational Church in Amherst on Saturday. The Rev. Margaret Sawyer, of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, a local group that s been supporting Perez, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently stayed his deportation.
The organization said Perez was denied a deportation stay under President Donald Trump s administration and ordered to leave the country. It said he entered the country illegally in 1999 at the age of 17 and eventually settled in Springfield, Mass., with his wife and family in 2008.
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FACT CHECK: Does SA really have 15 million illegal migrants?
By senior researcher Cayley Clifford
In March 2021, the hashtag #15MillionIllegalMigrants appeared on Twitter, with claims that there were 15 million illegal migrants in South Africa.
One tweet shows a screenshot of a document that claims South Africa has “just over 15 million unregistered or undocumented people”.
Another has a screenshot of a November 2020 tweet by Herman Mashaba, former mayor of Johannesburg, in which he claimed there were 15 million “undocumented foreigners” in South Africa.
Africa Check fact checked Mashaba’s tweet, and found no evidence for the 15 million figure. Three months later, there’s still no evidence.
Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has enlisted the Federal Emergency Management Agency to handle the ongoing unaccompanied minor and illegal immigration crisis at the southern border, which has exploded in recent