BOSTON — Just a few short months ago, Lucio Perez moved out of the western Massachusetts church he'd lived in for more than three years to avoid deportation.
Immigration authorities in March granted the 40-year-old Guatemalan national a temporary stay in his deportation while he argued to have his immigration case reconsidered. Now, Perez is looking to a recent Supreme Court ruling to help him clear that final hurdle and officially be allowed to remain in the country he's called home for more than two decades.
"At this point, I'm feeling very positive that everything is on the right track," he said recently from his home in Springfield, Massachusetts. "I don't have that fear of deportation anymore. I feel safer now."
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