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Posted on: May 27, 2025 at 14:47:54 CT
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harvard-grad-living-illegally-in-los-angeles-self-deports-amid-trump-immigration-agenda/ar-AA1FecRD
A Harvard graduate who lived in California has self-deported back to Mexico with his U.S. citizen husband after being told to cancel their honeymoon due to detention fears, an LA news outlet has reported.
Francisco Hernandez-Corona, 34, graduated from Harvard in 2013 after crossing the border as a child illegally twice, resulting in a permanent ban from the U.S. He married his U.S. citizen husband last year, but officials told him that wouldn’t change his immigration status, NBC Los Angeles reported this week.
The gay couple decided to self-deport earlier this spring amid President Trump’s deportation push and after their lawyers told them to cancel their honeymoon to Puerto Rico, fearing Hernandez-Corona could be detained.
“That’s when I looked at him and said, ‘Then, I guess we have to leave,’” Hernandez-Corona told NBC Los Angeles. “There isn’t any reason for us to stay here.”
The Trump administration is paying $1,000 to people who are in the United States illegally and return to their home country voluntarily. The Department of Homeland Security is also paying for travel assistance.
Hernandez-Corona reportedly came to the US illegally twice, the first time on a tourist visa as a 6-year-old with his mother and the second through the border as a 10-year-old. His family ultimately settled in Lennox, a community outside of Los Angeles, before he received acceptance into Harvard in 2009.
After his mother died during his senior year of high school, Hernandez-Corona said his teachers took care of him through graduation. NBC Los Angeles reported that his father “sent him to cross through the desert with a ‘coyote,’ a migrant smuggler,” as a 10-year-old.
“Because of the choice my dad made when I was a child, U.S. law says it doesn’t matter,” Hernandez-Corona told the news outlet. “I don’t care that you were 10, I don’t care if you were bleeding in the desert, or crying in the desert alone. I don’t care that you didn’t choose this; you can no longer stay in a place that you call home.”
Hernandez-Corona ran into processing delays of over a decade when applying for visas after graduating from Harvard. He applied under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the Violence Against Women Act for women and child abuse victims.
Hernandez-Corona and his husband flew to Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s west coast, three weeks ago, NBC Los Angeles reported.
“(Mexicans) all were saying, ‘Welcome back home! You belong here,’” Hernandez-Corona told the outlet.
A Harvard graduate who lived in California has self-deported back to Mexico with his U.S. citizen husband after being told to cancel their honeymoon due to detention fears, an LA news outlet has reported.
Francisco Hernandez-Corona, 34, graduated from Harvard in 2013 after crossing the border as a child illegally twice, resulting in a permanent ban from the U.S. He married his U.S. citizen husband last year, but officials told him that wouldn’t change his immigration status, NBC Los Angeles reported this week.
The gay couple decided to self-deport earlier this spring amid President Trump’s deportation push and after their lawyers told them to cancel their honeymoon to Puerto Rico, fearing Hernandez-Corona could be detained.
“That’s when I looked at him and said, ‘Then, I guess we have to leave,’” Hernandez-Corona told NBC Los Angeles. “There isn’t any reason for us to stay here.”
The Trump administration is paying $1,000 to people who are in the United States illegally and return to their home country voluntarily. The Department of Homeland Security is also paying for travel assistance.
Hernandez-Corona reportedly came to the US illegally twice, the first time on a tourist visa as a 6-year-old with his mother and the second through the border as a 10-year-old. His family ultimately settled in Lennox, a community outside of Los Angeles, before he received acceptance into Harvard in 2009.
After his mother died during his senior year of high school, Hernandez-Corona said his teachers took care of him through graduation. NBC Los Angeles reported that his father “sent him to cross through the desert with a ‘coyote,’ a migrant smuggler,” as a 10-year-old.
“Because of the choice my dad made when I was a child, U.S. law says it doesn’t matter,” Hernandez-Corona told the news outlet. “I don’t care that you were 10, I don’t care if you were bleeding in the desert, or crying in the desert alone. I don’t care that you didn’t choose this; you can no longer stay in a place that you call home.”
Hernandez-Corona ran into processing delays of over a decade when applying for visas after graduating from Harvard. He applied under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the Violence Against Women Act for women and child abuse victims.
Hernandez-Corona and his husband flew to Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s west coast, three weeks ago, NBC Los Angeles reported.
“(Mexicans) all were saying, ‘Welcome back home! You belong here,’” Hernandez-Corona told the outlet.
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