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Attorneys are trying to stop the deportation of dozens of Iraqi immigrants who were rounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Sunday in Metro Detroit. ICE said they had criminal convictions and were being legally deported.
One of the attorneys, Clarence Dass, of Southfield, who represents 15 detainees, tells Niraj Warikoo of the Detroit Free Press, he filed emergency motions for a stay with the immigration court in Detroit. Dass. "Changed circumstances in Iraq" would put the Chaldeans at risk as Christians in their Muslim-majority homeland.
"They can't got back to a war zone," Dass tells the paper.
Some of the criminal convictions date back decades ago.
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