Back in March of 2004, I made two posts concerning Rafael Jaramillo. You can read the posts here and here.
In essence, Rafael came to this country illegally at the age of two with his family. Rafael’s siblings went through the system and became citizens, but he never did. Then, he made a very stupid mistake. He made a phone call as part of a drug deal and got caught. Rafael was going to be deported, when I saw the story (no longer up in the newspaper).
I initially gave a “buh-bye” post, as he got himself in his own position. I then became a little sorry for him, as he got himself into a real pickle. He was facing deportation to a country where he didn’t speak the language, and had no family to support him.
Then, last night, I got this as a feedback:

Not sure if you remember me, but I thought I would come back to the Zone and explain to people what has occurred in the past year and 1 half since this article- well, it so happens that I am still in the USA- Wow, can you believe that and it also so happens that I derived citizenship through my father, basically I am and have been an American since the age of 14- I went through their jails, process, spent a lot of money for nothing- I am happy because its made me a better person but I have actually been through HELL- SO I wanted to update you guys, if you have any questions about the law or what happened please let me know, its pretty interesting actually

It’s nice to know that he remembered us, and would bring an update as to how well he is doing. I made this post to update everybody on what is going on, since he responded to a very old post.
If you want, Rafael, you can put your story in the feedback for this post.