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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Protest planned after Florida student deported following traffic stop

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The University of Florida campus entrance facing the Warrington College of Business in Gainesville. Photograph: Miami Herald/TNS

A campus protest is planned at the University of Florida on Wednesday in support of a Colombian student deported by the Trump administration following his arrest for alleged traffic violations.

The family of Felipe Zapata Velázquez, 27, said on Tuesday he was “undergoing a physical and emotional recovery process” in his home country after police arrested him in Gainesville on 28 March for offenses including having an expired tag and suspended driver’s license, then turned him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).

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