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Connie Chung Joe, the chief executive of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, said that in the last month her organization has been made aware of at least 17 community members in Los Angeles and Orange counties who have gone in for scheduled check-ins, only to be detained or deported.

“These are folks who’ve been here for decades,” Chung Joe said.

He’s owned the space, on the hipster-meets-dusty-old-school Chung King Road in Chinatown, for quite a few years, and hung artwork on the walls.

District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled Tuesday that Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old lawful permanent resident, can’t be detained while she fights deportation.

The secretary’s targets extend beyond visa holders, as he purports to revoke the lawful status of lawful permanent residents as well, with two known so far: Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil and Columbia undergraduate Yunseo Chung.