Kansas father fighting deportation now held in Hawaii
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas father and husband who is fighting efforts to deport him to Bangladesh was taken off a plane that was flying him back to his native country and is being held at a detention centre in Hawaii, his attorneys said Tuesday.
Federal immigration officials put Syed Ahmed Jamal, 55, who has lived in Kansas for 30 years, on the plane Monday before an immigration panel granted a temporary stay in the case. He was taken off the flight when it stopped to refuel in Honolulu, said Rekha Sharma-Crawford, one of his attorneys.
Sharma-Crawford said Tuesday that immigration officials could send him back voluntarily, but if they don’t, her firm will ask a federal judge to order his return.
“It is our hope that doesn’t have to happen and they will now at this point return him back to his family but we’ll have to just see what happens,” she said.