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He hurried to the free telephones to get in touch with his wife, \u201cMaria,\u201d and catch up on his four US-born children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy head is empty right now, after all that time in detention,\u201d he said, blinking under the fluorescent lights of the reception center. \u201cBut we\u2019ll see what happens. I\u2019m so happy to be out.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ESergio went to the United States for the first time when he was 14, taking along his then 12-year-old brother. Their father was working in the maquiladora (export-processing) factories of Matamoros, Mexico, and wanted better for his five sons. 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But what he really liked was working with food, and he already had a good job at a restaurant, where he wore the smart black-and-white waiter\u2019s uniform and earned good tips. Maria, his wife to be, another undocumented immigrant, was working there as a waitress.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe restaurant life worked well for the couple. The perks included seafood and steaks, so they could save on food, and when they started having children, they were able to spell each other: he mostly worked nights and she days, but they would switch to relieve each other.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ESergio\u2019s troubles started in 2010, when he was caught with marijuana and pleaded guilty to felony possession of marijuana. He served a six-month sentence for the conviction and additional time in San Antonio Detention Center before being deported. Since then, he says, he has had no involvement with any illegal substance. He\u2019s tried repeatedly to return to his family but has been caught every time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNow, just knowing it\u2019s me, they stop me,\u201d he said of the city police in his town and elsewhere along the border. \u201cThey grab me, leaving my house or in a store, or anywhere,\u201d he said. He gets stopped, he said, because police know he is undocumented. \u201cI sign the deportation and that\u2019s it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ESergio says he isn\u2019t afraid of drowning in the river or dying in the desert. \u201cBut the points keep adding up,\u201d he said, \u201cyear after year, just for entering the United States.\u201d He\u2019s been prosecuted for illegal reentry several times and the sentence rises each time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EMaria visits Sergio regularly every time he is locked up. She sends their four kids to visit him in Mexico while he\u2019s waiting to cross. The oldest is about to start middle school; the youngest will soon start elementary school. But Maria, herself undocumented, can\u2019t visit Sergio in Mexico.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy wife is brave \u2013 braver than me,\u201d Sergio said. But Maria doesn\u2019t want him to cross anymore, he said, because she doesn\u2019t want him locked up again.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ESergio was planning, for the time being, to go to the Mexican town of China, in the state of Nuevo Leon, to work for a sister-in-law with a scaffolding business.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens,\u201d he said, as he picked up his plastic bag of belongings to head for the first bus on his journey to China.\u00a0\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}]