Here is a list of Rami Othmane’s loves: a good steak at Arroyo Chop House. At 6 foot 7 inches tall, and for such a skinny guy, he sure does love his food. Then there’s classical Arabic music, made with the pear-shaped oud, ancestor of the guitar, from which he plucked songs from his home country Tunisia. He dotes on his two dogs, Nova and Rizu.

And then there is Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, 47, his bride, who herself can list all the ways she loves her husband, before she stutters to a stop: reminded she is standing outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. Remembering he is close, but not beside her. Because on Sunday, July 13, on his way to pick up sausage fixings at a Pasadena grocery store, Othmane, 36, was taken from his car and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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