Two members of Michigan's congressional delegation are trying again to keep a southwest Michigan businessman from being deported. Federal officials want to send Ibrahim Parlak back to Turkey saying he didn't disclose his arrest following a gunfight there in 1988. But Parlak's supporters say he did tell immigration authorities about the incident when he was granted political asylum in 1992.

Parlak was involved with an armed group seeking Kurdish independence from Turkey.

Republican Congressman Fred Upton and Democratic Senator Carl Levin have introduced bills that would grant Parlak permanent residency in the U.S. Two similar bills have not been approved.

Parlak opened the restaurant Caf? Gulistan in Kalamazoo in the 1990's before moving it to Harbert, near New Buffalo.