PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The manager of a Suya Joint—a West African restaurant with locations in Providence and Boston—who was spent more than three months in federal immigration custody Now, he is home and sharing his story.
‘I don’t think it’s me they’re looking for’
June 15 is a day Paul Dama remembers all too well.
“It was a Sunday, just like today,” Dama told 12 News. “I woke up early in the morning, took a shower and was going to go to church.”
After starting his car in Brockton, Massachusetts, Dama noticed an unmarked SUV pass by — a type he recognized as often used by U.S. Immigration and Custody Enforcement (ICE) officials.
“But I said to myself, ‘Even if its them, I don’t think its me they’re looking for,’” he recalled…