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Marshfield rallies against deportation order

Restaurant owner held in US custody

By Johanna Seltz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 24, 2012

Regular customers and friends of a popular Marshfield restaurant owner are rallying to stop the government from sending him back to China - which he left nearly 20 years ago - so he can remain here with his wife and two small children and continue running the eatery. Federal agents arrested Kong Xin Chen, 38, at his Mandarin Tokyo restaurant on Dec. 6, 2011, on an 18-year-old deportation order. He’s being held in Alabama.

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