LUMPKIN, Ga. — A judge will decide within 30 days whether a Gwinnett County barber should be deported to the country that he left as a toddler 43 years ago.

Rodney Taylor has been in immigration custody since January . Taylor's case has drawn an outcry from critics of the administration's immigration policies.

Inside the sprawling ICE detention center in the south Georgia town of Lumpkin, Taylor has been in an isolation cell for weeks, according to his supporters. They say the Gwinnett County barber had lived a respectable and uplifting life, following a burglary conviction as a teenager.

Although the state pardoned Taylor in that case, ICE agents picked him up in January. He's been locked up since then.

His fiancée, Mildred Pierre, was among two dozen supporters who gathered Tuesday

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