Pizza guy’s kids feel hope

THE TWO YOUNG daughters of a pizza deliveryman facing deportation were overjoyed their father was given a last-minute reprieve.

“They look different today and I’m happy for that,” Sandra Chica, the wife of Pablo Villavicencio, said Sunday.

Her husband was taken into federal custody on June 1 when he was nabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as he delivered a pizza pie to Fort Hamilton, an Army base in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Villavicencio, 35, an Ecuadoran native, was arrested after a military staffer on the base discovered a 2009 deportation order against him.

On Saturday, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Alison Nathan put his imminent deportation on hold. Villavicencio’s lawyer argued that he was “abruptly detained by ICE following apparent ethnic profiling while he was working.”

The filing included multiple letters written by elected officials and supporters opposing his deportation.

Chica, his wife, thanked the media for bringing attention to his plight.

“Yesterday we tried one more time to stop my husband’s deportation,” Chica, an American citizen, told the Daily News.

“In the afternoon we were informed about the good news and now we want to thank all of you for your help and support.

“Pablo is positive,” she added. “He just wants to kiss and hold his babies. Now the lawyers are working on his case.”

Before his arrest, Villavicencio and his wife lived in Hempstead, L.I., with their two daughters, Luciana, 3, and Antonia, 2 (left to right with him in family photo, inset).

He remains at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey until the case is adjudicated.