T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Tuesday
March 30, 2010
Volume 91, No.
96
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
BY CHRIS HUNT
The Shorthorn staff
After spending 15 years in the U.
S.
and enjoying a brief full-ride studying...
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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Tuesday
March 30, 2010
Volume 91, No.
96
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
BY CHRIS HUNT
The Shorthorn staff
After spending 15 years in the U.
S.
and enjoying a brief full-ride studying electrical engineering at UTA, Saad Nabeel returned to the
country he hasn’t seen since age three.
Nabeel, now 19, gathered some of his personal valuables from his apartment at UTA on
Nov.
3, 2009 — the same day his mother, Laila
Nazmin, told him he must leave Texas or face
the handcuffs of immigration officers and ultimately a deportation to Bangladesh.
He was studying for an electrical engineering
lab midterm the next morning when he got the
call from Nazmin.
“I didn’t know what to do really,” Nabeel said
in an e-mail.
“It took an hour or so for me to realize that I actually had to leave everything I’ve
ever loved in Texas behind.
”
Nazmin’s uncle lived in Canada, which made
Nabeel and his parents eligible for temporary
refugee statu
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