Immigration authorities: Ex-Rutgers student convicted in webcam spying case won’t be deported

[The Northerner]

Source: Associated Press

TRENTON, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student convicted of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate will not be deported to his native India, federal immigration authorities said on Monday.

Twenty-year-old Dharun Ravi is due to be released from the Middlesex County Jail on Tuesday after serving 20 days of a 30-day jail sentence.

He was convicted this year of 15 criminal counts, including bias intimidation and invasion of privacy, for using a webcam to see his roommate kissing another man in September 2010. Days later, the roommate, Tyler Clementi, threw himself to his death off the George Washington Bridge.

The issue of deportation has hung over the case.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/immigration-authorities-ex-rutgers-student-convicted-in-webcam-spying-case-wont-be-deported/2012/06/18/gJQA1OnvlV_story.html

[SoCalNative]

1. Pity

he should have been jailed for a least a decade, then deported.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Why not? They send blue color workers home for much less.

[pscot]

3. It's collar, goddammit! Blue Collar.

But you're right.