Deportation divides family - U.S. citizen hopes for husband’s return

“Alexandre Nicolas left for his restaurant job early one morning in February and never returned to his wife and daughter in MetroWest.

Immigration officials arrested the 37-year-old Haitian man — who arrived illegally in Florida by boat about 13 years ago — outside his apartment. Weeks later, they put him on a plane and sent him back to his country.

Nicolas had a pending immigration petition and is married to an American citizen; they have a U.S.-born daughter. But he became one of thousands targeted in Homeland Securitys stepped-up effort to deport foreigners who have sidestepped immigration law.”

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