A Pakistani immigrant detained almost three years ago after taking autumn photographs near an Upstate New York reservoir lost a final appeal on Tuesday and faces deportation. In the end, dozens of members of Congress, an international circle of supporters and a flurry of petitions could not stop the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from issuing a deportation order for Ansar Mahmood, 27. A pizza deliveryman, Mahmood is one of the longest-held detainees from a roundup of Arab and Muslim men in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. [more]
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