In recent weeks, a campaign to support Rigo Padilla, a college student in Chicago facing deportation, has gathered steam. The campaign generated 1,159 faculty petitions and over 18,000 individual petitions to DHS Director Janet Napolitano, ICE Director John Morton, Sen. Richard Durbin and Sen. Roland Burris.

"Six days away from deportation, a University of Illinois at Chicago student has won a one-year reprieve...Instead of returning next week to his native Mexico, Padilla can graduate from UIC, where he's studying law and earning straight A's..."

Read articles about the case here:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1932535,rigo-padilla-deportation-repr...

and here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/us/11student.html?scp=1&sq=rigo%20padi...

See the faculty petition here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHRhNk1yLXJ3OFRDVXNPamF0...