More than 100 public figures have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel in a bid to stop the deportation of a severely autistic Dudley man.
Osime Brown, 22, faces being flown back to Jamaica after being released home early from a five year jail sentence after a phone robbery conviction.
Yet supporters say he does not have any family network or knowledge of the island since arriving in the UK as a small child.
A letter to the Home Secretary is now calling for a u-turn on the decision.
It has been signed by more than 100 influential names including the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Birmingham poet Benjamin Zephaniah and Amnesty International UK director, Kate Allen.
More than 50 MPs have also voiced their concern including Labour''s Steve McCabe, for Selly Oak, and Zarah Sultana for Coventry South.
A petition to allow Osime to stay has also attracted 315,000 signatures.
Osime was convicted in 2018 of robbery, attempted robbery and perverting the course of justice over the robbery of a friend’s mobile phone - a crime he says he did not commit.
He was supposed to be transferred to an immigration detention centre before being deported to Jamaica.
However after protests and intervention from his lawyers, he was allowed to return to his family after his release from jail in October.
His mum Joan Martin, 54, has led the campaign for him to stay over the past few months including protests in London.
She says her family has been destroyed by the conviction and deportation notice.
"I am angry. I am broken and this has left me with anxiety and depression," she had said.
"It feels like the rug has been pulled from under my feet.
"We have no family, the grandparents all died. His father is in America, all my family live in Canada and America too.
"He hasn't been back once. He doesn't know Jamaica.
"Jamaican culture is nothing like England.
"He has dyslexia, he is autistic, he has PTSD. Who is going to look after him when he goes out there?
"The Home Office has the audacity to say he is not culturally orientated to this culture.
"They are saying he is culturally orientated to a country he hasn't been in for 17 years."
A Home Office spokesperson previously said: “It would be inappropriate to comment while legal proceedings are ongoing.”
