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As he rolled out of the parking lot to head back to work, Diego said an Amarillo police officer pulled him over, saying he had failed to yield properly. That stop led to his deportation in June, eighteen months later.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t have family here in Mexico,\u201d he said in English, when Human Rights Watch researchers met him at a deportee reception center in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. 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He was just born somewhere else.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tDiego\u2019s immigration troubles started in 2012 when he and Amanda were arguing in their apartment \u2013 only verbally, they both insist \u2013 and a neighbor called the police. Diego said he calmly went out to meet them, and allowed himself to be cuffed. He pleaded guilty to obstructing police because, he said, \u201cI didn\u2019t know what I was doing. I wasn\u2019t able to talk to anybody.\u201d Diego served two months in Potter County Jail, and then a Border Patrol officer collected him. \u201cThey threatened me that if I didn\u2019t sign a paper, I was going to go to prison and would never see my family again,\u201d Diego says. \u201cI didn\u2019t read the paper, I just signed.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tThat first deportation was hard on Diego, who got caught twice trying to cross back. \u201cI didn\u2019t know nobody,\u201d Diego says. \u201cI got robbed in Mexico, they took all my money, about US$100. When I was walking in the desert, I saw two dead bodies, lying in the dirt.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tWhen police stopped Diego at the convenience store on that January day, he couldn\u2019t produce a drivers\u2019 license \u2013 Texas doesn\u2019t issue them to undocumented migrants. Police also found a small amount of methamphetamine in the car, which Diego says he has used occasionally in recent years, \u201clike Red Bull,\u201d to stay awake at work. This time, his stay in the Potter County Jail lasted nine months, and he was released to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, only to spend nine more months in detention. Although Amanda urged him not to sign anything \u2013 she was seeking ways to help him stay legally \u2013 Diego signed deportation papers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tAmanda said the first choice for them both is to get him back to Amarillo legally. But for the time being, Diego is fending for himself in a strange country. \u201cThis time, I got to know an old man in detention with me, so I feel a little safer,\u201d he said, as he waited to use a phone at the deportee reception center. \u201cHe\u2019s going to let me stay at his house.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u201cHis instinct,\u201d said Amanda of Diego, \u201cis just to come home.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]