Owen Ramsingh, a green card holder and longtime Columbia resident, faces deportation proceedings due to a drug conviction back when he was a teenager. His absence has taken an emotional toll on the community, which is working to raise awareness.

Owen Ramsingh, a longtime Columbia resident, remains in a Texas detention center more than a month after he was detained in Chicago by Customs and Border Protection agents upon returning home from a trip to his home country, the Netherlands.

The green card holder, who immigrated to the U.S. as a child in the 1980s, is facing deportation due to a conviction for cocaine possession when he was a teenager. When asked for an explanation for Ramsingh's detention, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson sent a general e-mail to KBIA last month ca

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