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'I Wouldn't Move Back': Deported Irish Man Creates A Life In His New Home

Dylan O'Riordan, who was living in Boston illegally before being picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His parents brought him to the U.S. when he was 12.
Dylan O'Riordan outside Freeney's Bar in the roaring heart of Galway, Ireland.

When NPR last heard from young Irishman Dylan O'Riordan, he was sitting forlornly in a jailhouse in Boston waiting to be deported to the country of his birth.

His parents brought him from County Galway to Boston when he was 12. He lived there quietly for eight years going to school, working for a roofer, and getting married.

Then last year, O'Riordan had a scrape

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