When the hummus bar he founded really started to take off, Ibra Idrees employed his parents and brought them to Sweden But his mother and father now face deportation after the Migration Agency rejected his mother’s work permit.

In his conversation with The Local’s Becky Waterton, Idrees explains how he developed Hummusson into one of Malmö best-loved haunts and how the establishment's family-made hummus ended up on supermarket shelves.

But mostly he talks about why he thinks the Migration Agency botched the case and why he's determined to fight to keep his parents in Sweden.

• Parents of Malmö's hummus bar owner given weeks to leave country

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