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“He’s my best friend,” Gurtovaia recalled in an interview Wednesday night, sitting in her and Abak’s dimly lit Uptown apartment.
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Chicago Tribune

As the immigration blitz wound down, a couple breathed a sigh of relief. Then they were torn apart.

Standing before a federal judge in Chicago’s Loop, Eva Gurtovaia took her oath of allegiance to the United States. She was now officially a citizen, a moment she and her husband, Enes Abak, had been looking forward to for months. Loved ones filled the courtroom. None, though, was hers. Abak couldn’t be there to watch. No, he was across state lines in federal custody.

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