SYDNEY, Australia — The mother of an autistic Filipino boy she says faces deportation because he would be a burden to the Australian taxpayer presented a petition Monday signed by tens of thousands of people begging authorities to let him stay.
Ten-year-old Tyrone Sevilla arrived in Australia from the Philippines legally as a two-year-old with his mother Maria Sevilla, now a registered nurse in a Queensland hospital.
But he was diagnosed with autism in 2008, a condition the Migration Review Tribunal said posed a “significant cost” to the Australian community in denying the family a visa extension, his mother told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
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