Another “bad hombre” who was smuggled across the US/Mexican border as a child and became a pillar of the community (as well as small business owner) gets booted from the US – PB/TK
Well-Respected Coffee Farmer in Hawaii Deported to Mexico – By Chelsea Bailey and Pete Williams / July 10 2017
A coffee farmer in Hawaii who appealed his deportation order in federal court was forced to leave the island late Friday, after a last-ditch effort to remain with his wife and children was denied, according to NBC-affiliate KNHL.
Andres Magana Ortiz said goodbye to his wife and his three children at Kona International Airport late Friday after the Department of Homeland Security rejected his lawyer’s petition to grant him legal status because he is married to a U.S. citizen, KNHL said.
Ortiz voluntarily left Hawaii to return to Mexico, where he told reporters that he no longer has family. The 43-year-old was smuggled in to the U.S. when he was 15 in order to join his mother.
Continue to msn.com article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/well-respected-coffee-farmer-in-hawaii-deported-to-mexico/ar-BBE0HF8?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
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