After being detained by ICE for seven months, when he dutifully reported to their offices in Burlington as he was asked to do and as he had done so many times before, Niberd Abdalla didn’t come home and faced being sent back to Iraq-a country he left over 40 years ago. Thanks to his lifelong love who is now officially his wife, Ellen McShane, his lawyer, Buz Eisenberg and the people behind  the Western Mass ACLU’s Immigrant Protection Project and the Pioneer Valley Workers Center-Niberd is home again.

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