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PEORIA, Ariz. - The owner of a successful Peoria sushi restaurant, who has lived in the U.S. for more than two decades without legal status, is facing deportation to Hong Kong within weeks.

What we know:

Kelly Yu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 28 and has been held at the Eloy Detention Center.

Her husband, Aldo, said she came to the U.S. when she was 19 and pregnant, seeking a better life and trying to escape China's one-child policy.

"She came here 21 years ago," Aldo said Monday, Aug. 11.

Homeland Security Investigations confirmed Yu had entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico in 2004 and was ordered to be removed in 2005. She pursued several appeals that were all denied, with her final appeal dismissed in 2016.

Yu has no criminal r

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