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    CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN TO BE DEPORTED

    FOX News
    June 2 2008

    FRESNO, Calif. -- The valedictorian at Fresno's Bullard High School
    won't be attending college in the United States this fall because
    he's scheduled to be deported.

    Arthur Mkoyan's 4.0 grade-point average qualified him to enter one of
    the state's top universities. But the 17-year-old and his mother have
    been ordered back to Armenia after their last appeal for asylum failed.

    The family fled from what used to be part of the Soviet Union and
    has been seeking asylum since 1992.

    A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they
    were given an extension until June 20 so Mkoyan could attend his
    graduation ceremony.

    A federal bill called the DREAM Act that would have given some
    high-performing illegal immigrants legal status to attend college
    stalled last year in Congress.
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