Taking Sanctuary
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Sujitno Sajuti, 70, took sanctuary for 18 months in a church near New Haven, Connecticut, after spending 71 days in a detention center.
Born in Indonesia, Sujitno came to the U.S. as a Fulbright and USAID scholar in the 1980s, but through a string of bad luck and poor legal advice, faced the possibility of deportation to a country he no longer knew.
In May 2019, he was able to return to his home with his wife in Connecticut without further threat of deportation.
As of 2018, there were 805,000+ undocumented immigrants in the U.S. age 55 or older.
Born in Indonesia, Sujitno came to the U.S. as a Fulbright and USAID scholar in the 1980s, but through a string of bad luck and poor legal advice, faced the possibility of deportation to a country he no longer knew.
In May 2019, he was able to return to his home with his wife in Connecticut without further threat of deportation.
As of 2018, there were 805,000+ undocumented immigrants in the U.S. age 55 or older.
