He was taken into immigration custody shortly after his Feb. 25 arrest on charges of embezzling almost $3,000 from the Harris Teeter store in Myers Park where he worked. That felony charge later was pleaded down by Zamudio's criminal attorneys. But while the plea deal allowed Zamudio to avoid formal deportation, it could not keep him in the country long enough to graduate with his classmates. He has been held in Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., 140 miles south of Atlanta, for more than two months.