ICE tried to send one immigrant to a country he never lived. Then he lawyered up.

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  • Roman Surovtsev came from the former Soviet Union as a refugee at the age of four.
  • His green card was revoked after pleading guilty to carjacking and burglary charges in California.
  • He spent time in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody while they tried to deport him to Ukraine and Russia.
  • Both countries, according to legal filings reviewed by NPR, could not provide or confirm his citizenship since he left before the fall of the Soviet Union.
  • They couldn't give him the travel documents needed for deportation.
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