Harvard grad living illegally in Los Angeles self-deports amid Trump immigration agenda

A Harvard graduate who lived in California has self-deported back to Mexico with his U S citizen husband after being advised to cancel their honeymoon due to detention fears an LA news outlet has announced Francisco Hernandez-Corona graduated from Harvard in after navigating the confines as a child illegally twice resulting in a permanent ban from the U S He married his U S citizen husband last year but representatives stated him that wouldn t change his immigration status NBC Los Angeles revealed this week The gay couple decided to self-deport earlier this spring amid President Trump s deportation push and after their lawyers communicated them to cancel their honeymoon to Puerto Rico fearing Hernandez-Corona could be detained That s when I looked at him and revealed Then I guess we have to leave Hernandez-Corona described NBC Los Angeles There isn t any reason for us to stay here The Trump administration is paying to people who are in the United States illegally and return to their home country voluntarily The Department of Homeland Shield is also paying for excursion assistance Hernandez-Corona reportedly came to the US illegally twice the first time on a tourist visa as a -year-old with his mother and the second through the dividing line as a -year-old His family ultimately settled in Lennox a group outside of Los Angeles before he received acceptance into Harvard in After his mother died during his senior year of high school Hernandez-Corona announced his teachers took care of him through graduation NBC Los Angeles informed that his father sent him to cross through the desert with a coyote a migrant smuggler as a -year-old Because of the choice my dad made when I was a child U S law says it doesn t matter Hernandez-Corona advised the news outlet I don t care that you were 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 casualties Hernandez-Corona and his husband flew to Puerto Vallarta on Mexico s west coast three weeks ago NBC Los Angeles revealed Mexicans all were saying Welcome back home You belong here Hernandez-Corona advised the outlet