Immigration judge halts deportation of high school student

The deportation of a northwest Ohio high school student born in Germany who is trying to stay in the United States until he graduates was halted Friday by an &to=http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/88/351/16590_scientists.html' target=_blank>immigration judge.

Judge Wayne Iskra, with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., granted Manuel Bartsch's request to allow him to stay in the country at least until he can have a hearing before an immigration court, Bartsch's attorney, David Leopold, told The Associated Press.

Bartsch will remain jailed at least until a bond hearing scheduled Wednesday in Cleveland, Leopold said.