The detention of a dean’s list university student serves as a caution for DACA recipients

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A college student was in his last semester at the University at Albany when he was detained by federal immigration officials and ordered to be deported. Omar Helalat moved from Jordan to the United States when he was 4 and was finishing his education as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient.  Reporter Beth Fertig has the story.

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