A chorus of nationally known faith leaders and other clergy in the New York area had supported the New Sanctuary Coalition director's plea to be spared deportation.

For the first time in a very long time, immigration advocate Ravi Ragbir says he’s now able to walk down the street – without looking over his shoulder. It’s been an anxiety-ridden journey PIX11 News has documented for almost a decade,

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Biden issued five other pardons, including one for the late Pan-Africanist and Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Biden also pardoned the New York-based immigrant rights leader Ravi Ragbir,

President Biden’s historic pardon of Ragbir, a Trinidadian immigration activist, and Garvey, the renowned Jamaican Pan-Africanist, have sparked widespread celebration.