Jorge Garcia has lived in the US since he was 10, has paid all his taxes since he first got a job, and doesn't even have so much as a traffic ticket to his name, his supporters say—but on Martin Luther King Day, the 39-year-old landscaper and father of two was deported to Mexico because he was here in the US illegally, the Detroit Free Press reports. His 30-year stay in the US came to an end at Detroit Metro Airport, where his wife, Cindy, 15-year-old daughter, and 12-year-old son (all US citizens) bid him a tearful goodbye as...
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