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28090: Hermantin(News)Judge order's Man's Deportation (fwd)
From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>
Posted Thursday March 9, 2006
NORTH MIAMI
JUDGE ORDERS MAN'S DEPORTATION
An immigration judge on Wednesday ordered the deportation to Haiti of a North
Miami man who claims to be a U.S. citizen.
Judge Kevin McHugh said Frantzy Odige, 23, can be deported because he is a
Haitian national and was convicted of sexual assault on a minor -- a deportable
offense for foreign nationals.
André Pierre, Odige's attorney, said he will appeal the ruling. Odige claims to
have derived automatic citizenship from his adoptive parents who are
naturalized U.S. citizens.
However, at a March 1 hearing, Judge McHugh found Odige not to be a U.S.
citizen and ordered him to stand trial for deportation.