Fenway High teacher Obain Attouoman, scheduled to be deported March 11, can now stay in the US until at least 2007. Fenway students have been fighting on behalf of Attouoman all week, including a march at City Hall. Yesterday, six students went to Washington to meet with John Kerry, and even Mitt Romney wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security supporting Obain.
Attouoman came to the US from the Ivory Coast in 1992, where he was arrested for his involvement with a teachers' union. He applied for asylum but missed an immigration meeting in 2001 and has been narrowly avoiding deportation ever since. He's been teaching in Boston for ten years, and Kerry is filing private legislation for Attouoman to stay permanently.
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