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Kansas teen pens emotional letter urging ICE to reconsider deporting dad

Activists demonstrate against deportation during a protest outside the Jacob Javits Federal Building in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., January 11, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

By: Keerthi Mohan

The first year of Donald Trump’s presidency saw a number of immigrants being sent out of the US, resulting in large-scale hysteria as among them were primary breadwinners of the family and primary caretakers of small children. Kansas-based Chemistry teacher Syed Ahmed Jamal is also the primary breadwinner of his family. But he is currently behind bars after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested him last week. Jamal, who has lived in Lawrence for more than 30 years after he came from Bangladesh on a student visa, was on temporary work visa when he was arrested. According to reports, he…

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