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It\u2019s one of our family\u2019s favorite holidays.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe family tradition was to go to one of the lakes near their Pontiac, Michigan home for a barbeque and to watch the fireworks. But the United States has deported him twice in the past two months.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2007, Santiago fled Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico, for two reasons: he wanted to join his girlfriend of four years \u2013 now wife \u2013 \u201cSonia,\u201d and he was being threatened by the drug cartels. He first attempted to fly north \u2013 he had a visa and had visited Sonia in Alabama that way in the past. He said that immigration agents stopped him at the airport in Houston, telling him he had entered and left the US too often and they suspected he was working without permission. They tore up his visa in front of him. 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In 2016, they married and Sonia gave birth to their youngest, \u201cMary.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ESantiago and his brother owned a construction company there, employing seven other people, predominantly family members. They were doing really well, he said, beaming. Santiago and Sonia purchased their first house a while back and last year, the family all traveled to Chicago to buy a dress for Mary\u2019s baptism. The fun-filled weekend was captured in a picture of David and Bryan smiling in their downtown Chicago hotel room. And for the first time in 10 years, Santiago said, he\u2019d planned to take an extended vacation: he had saved up to take the family to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EInstead, that money went to pay for his attorney.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EIn early April 2017, Santiago was driving to work in the truck his brother normally used when local Pontiac police pulled him over. He says he asked the officers what his offense was and got no answer. Instead, after taking his name, they asked for his brother. It turned out that the department had an arrest warrant out for his brother, whose ex-girlfriend had accused him of sexually assaulting her daughter.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EHaving pulled Santiago over expecting to find his brother, police charged him with driving without a license. Michigan does not issue drivers\u2019 licenses to undocumented individuals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ESantiago fought deportation for two months. He even applied for asylum, he said, noting that shortly before his arrest, nine people were lynched by cartels just blocks from his childhood home. On May 31, he was deported.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EDesperate to get back to his family, Santiago tried to cross the border a few days later. The Border Patrol caught him on July 12 and deported him again on July 26.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ESantiago choked up and sunk his face in his hands as he described family life in Michigan. He took a deep breath to collect himself: \u201cWe used to go out to dinner and a movie or we\u2019d order food and have movie night at home.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ENow he\u2019s worried for his family\u2019s survival. 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