A former Fulbright scholar left the sanctuary of a Connecticut church Friday after fighting deportation to his native Indonesia for nearly two years, according to a statement from Attorney General William Tong.

Tong, who announced that Sujitno Sajuti had been granted deferred action and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement no longer seeks to deport him, said in a statement, “I am overjoyed for Sujitno Sajuti, who can finally return home (to West Hartford) today after 19 long months in sanctuary. There is something horribly broken with our immigration system that this 70-year-old man who has lived peacefully here for three decades was deemed a priority for deportation.”

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