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Marshfield restaurateur comes home

Was held on ’90s deportation order

By Johanna Seltz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 02, 2012

Marshfield restaurant owner Kong Xin Chen is back home and back at work, after spending three months in an Alabama detention center not knowing whether he would be deported to China. Hundreds of his customers and friends lobbied for his release, enlisting the help of Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, among others, in their campaign.

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