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Albany Chef Released From ICE Detention

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas
Published March 5, 2019 at 4:12 PM EST
Elected officials, political activists, faith leaders and a local sheriff are rallying behind a soup kitchen chef being held by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
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Last month, elected officials, political activists, faith leaders and a local sheriff are rallying behind a soup kitchen chef being held by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

A local chef taken into custody last month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been released and is headed back to Albany. 

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy issued a statement Tuesday afternoon saying he was overjoyed to hear that Capital City Rescue Mission chef Kinimo Ngoran was released from ICE custody in Batavia and will be returning home soon.  A seven-lawyer pro bono team worked to secure Ngoran's release. His wife Lisa Pepper-Ngoran says the couple have been approved for a visa petition, which has been pending more than two years.  Capital City Rescue Mission Pastor Perry Jones sponsored Ngoran, who is from the Ivory Coast, so that he could live and work in the U.S. in 2011.  
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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.
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