Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/senagalese-student-lands-in-public-eye-over-pending-deportation Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Amadou Ly, a Senegalese 18-year-old living alone in New York City, now faces deportation after revealing his illegal immigrant status on his way to his high school's robotics competition. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. ANNOUNCER: There they go. TOM BEARDEN, NewsHour Correspondent: An international high school robotics competition in Atlanta got a lot more media attention than usual because of Amadou Ly, an 18-year-old from Senegal and a member of an East Harlem robotics team with a Cinderella story. The reason for all the attention is that Ly is an illegal immigrant. ANNOUNCER: All out of New York, down on the red side…