Mexican student facing deportation wins US stay

Politicians have helped this student stay here, they all know he is an asset to this country. We need people like him here. - - Donna Poisl

By Elaine Quijano

(CBS News) Updated 4/26/11
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) - Sen. Richard Blumenthal says the Department of Homeland Security called his office to inform him that a stay of removal had been granted for 23-year-old Mariano Cardoso.

Cardoso said Tuesday that he felt relieved and honored after Blumenthal called him to deliver the news.
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Connecticut's Governor Dan Malloy has joined a grass-roots campaign to stop federal officials from deporting an undocumented immigrant. Malloy says the young man can contribute to the country, and he's proven it.

CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano reports that when Mariano Cardoso Jr.'s parents brought their then-22-month-old son to America from Mexico, all they wanted was a better life for him.
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