{"id":135002,"date":"2026-03-11T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135002\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:23:07","slug":"after-year-of-upheaval-jersey-kebab-family-immigration-cases-no-closer-to-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135002\/","title":{"rendered":"After Year of Upheaval, Jersey Kebab Family Immigration Cases No Closer to Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"940\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Muhammed-Emanet-of-Jersey-Kebab-in-Collingswood.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\tMuhammed Emanet of Jersey Kebab in Collingswood. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-excerpt\">\u2018The media wants to portray a sad beginning and a happy ending, but that\u2019s not what we have now,\u2019 says Muhammed Emanet, whose family has been fighting for its U.S. citizenship for 20 years. Emanet, who is married to a U.S. citizen, has been waiting for his green card. Now, however, he has a final deportation hearing scheduled for December instead. Sign in or subscribe to continue reading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tBy<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMatt Skoufalos\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMarch 10, 2026\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Want-to-keep-reading.svg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muhammed Emanet of Jersey Kebab in Collingswood. Credit: Matt Skoufalos. \u2018The media wants to portray a sad beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62328,62329,2443,62330,62331,62332,62333,62334,62335,62336,62337,69,71,70,62338],"class_list":["post-135002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-celal-emanet","tag-emine-emanet","tag-ice","tag-immigration-nj","tag-jersey-kebab","tag-jersey-kebab-collingswood","tag-jersey-kebab-haddon-township","tag-matt-skoufalos","tag-muhammed-emanet","tag-newark-immigration-court","tag-njpen","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-trac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}