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Luckily, he has a lawyer who knew about the September 30 deadline. Otherwise he'd be banished to his mother's country, which is now foreign to him. "He doesn't speak the language," says his attorney. "All his relatives are in the United States."

Fox-Isicoff worries that many people like her client face deportation and don't even know about it. "Do you know how he found out he was illegal?" she asks incredulously. "He went to register for the navy."