It's good news and bad news for an immigrant advocate facing deportation
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March 10, 2017 · 5:30 PM EST
By Tiziana Rinaldi
Migrant rights advocate Ravi Ragbir talks to his supporters in New York City before going into the federal building for a scheduled check-in with immigration authorities on March 9, 2017. “When I look out at you who has come out for me, I’m overwhelmed. This is a sea of love, this is the Katrina that is going to overtake any wall that’s going to be built,” he said. “I thank you because I know you are here for me and many others.”
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Ravi Ragbir is a popular immigrant organizer in New York City. He’s been running the New York City Sanctuary Coalition for nearly a decade, and supporting migrants who are either detained or threatened with removal.
But now his own private struggle with deportation has become a big part of his work.
On Thursday, he took a dozen people with him to a scheduled meeting with immigration agents. He came to the US as a legal permanent resident, but was ordered deported after being convicted of an aggravated felony in 2001.
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