Curtis Wright, right, is pictured with his fiancee Kayla Thomsen in this undated photo. Wright has spent the last four months in a ICE detention centre in Texas, despite being a U.S. permanent resident for 30 years.
Photo by Kayla Thomsen /Supplied
Curtis Wright used to start his mornings by waking up his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and the first words he’d often hear were “Dada.”
For the past four months, that has been replaced by phone calls from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre in Texas since the Edmonton-born man has been separated from the life he’s built in the United States for the past three decades.
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A photo of Edmonton-born Curtis James Wright provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Wright remains in ICE custody pending the outcome of his immigration case.
Photo by Supplied Photo/U.S. Immigration
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Curtis Wright with his daughter pictured in this undated photo. Wright, who was born in Edmonton, has spent four months in an ICE detention centre in Texas, even though he’s lived in the United States for nearly 30 years.
Photo by Kayla Thomsen /Supplied
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Curtis Wright and his family pictured in this undated photo. Wright, a Canadian born in Edmonton, spent months in ICE detention after being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Texas, even though he’s lived in the United States for nearly 30 years.
Photo by Kayla Thomsen /Supplied