CMS Student Set To Be Deported Later This Week

CHARLOTTE, NC– Time is running out for a CMS student arrested by ICE agents in January.

He could be deported to El Salvador this week.

Pedro Salmeron came to Charlotte after his family says he was terrorized by gangs. He is at a detention center in Georgia. Tomorrow an attorney will file a stay as a last attempt to keep him in the country.

Salmeron’s mother says the family is praying he won’t have to go.

Other North Carolina teens in a similar situation have been released on bond.

Pedro’s family says his case is different because he didn’t know he could file an application for asylum when he was first detained.