Dad killed, mom deported, WA student seeks asylum

4 February 2012, 10:25 am

MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE When he was a baby, Al Okere's father was gunned down by police officers in Nigeria. When he was a high school student in Pierce County, his mother was deported after losing her asylum plea, but not before spending two years in a federal detention center in Tacoma. Now, Okere — a 21-year-old student at Central Washington University — is in immigration limbo ...... Read More »

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