Honduran Teen Heads Home

Julio Martinez, 19, sat in a Wisconsin jail Thursday morning, fearing he would be deported to his native Honduras because his mother missed an immigration hearing a decade ago.

But later in the day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials released the 2009 graduate of Franklin County High School, and he headed back to Kentucky.

Martinez’s attorney, Rachel Newton of Louisville, credited his release to “tremendous pressure” from family, friends and students from Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Lexington, which Martinez attended in the fall. He was arrested March 17th at his job at Lexington’s Amazon warehouse…

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