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After their father’s deportation, a Chicago-area family finds itself in survival mode
Published 1 month ago
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The Amin family is trying to find a way to bring their dad back to the US from Pakistan. After three decades in the US, while he was working to legalize his status, he was picked up during Midway Blitz, detained 3 months and then deported. And the family is trying to figure out how to save the family sandwich their father ran. He called it his sixth child. His son is running things at the moment but is supposed to go back to college in the fall. The story focused on the son. When they talk to the dad in Pakistan, he doesn't even ask about the shop. It's too painful.
WBEZ’s Esther Yoon-Ji Kang first met the Amin family that month.
So much has changed in the past year without their patriarch. Here’s their story.
HOST: LARA