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It was June 13, and Mateo was in a deportee reception center in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, contemplating his next steps.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tTo \u201cgo back,\u201d for Mateo, would mean paying US$7,000 to hike with a guide for four days through the desert \u003Cstrong\u003E\u2013 \u003C\/strong\u003Ewith a risk of getting caught, sent to prison, and deported again \u003Cstrong\u003E\u2013 \u003C\/strong\u003Eto say nothing of dying of heatstroke or at the hands of bandits. But he can\u2019t imagine any alternative, because his US-born kids are clamoring for him. \u201cSummer, the little one, wants Daddy to make her chocolate-chip pancakes with peanut butter and sliced bananas,\u201d he told us with a rueful smile.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tMateo said he made his first trek through the borderland at age 11 with his mother and two sisters. 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Mateo said he finished high school there, got a job as a cook at Denny\u2019s, and was able to move into his own apartment in a run-down part of town.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tSometime around 2005, he said, he went to the corner store for a soda and stopped to take a call on his cellphone about a possible job at Red Lobster. He barely noticed three young men near him on the sidewalk until police cars with sirens blaring roared in, full of detectives waving guns. They ordered the three men to lie flat on the sidewalk and, as he tells it, grabbed Mateo for good measure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tHe was charged with selling drugs. When he asserted his innocence, he recalled, his court-appointed lawyer told him, \u201cYeah, everybody says that. Do you want to continue playing stupid?\u201d Mateo pleaded guilty. He said he served six months of a three-year sentence, acquired a felony record, and was deported \u003Cstrong\u003E\u2013 \u003C\/strong\u003Eonly to cross again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tIn Friendswood, Texas, Mateo found good work remodeling homes, met Ashley, a US citizen, and married her. Within four years, they had a boy and two girls. The American Dream his mother had told him about when she first brought him north, he said, was finally coming true \u003Cstrong\u003E\u2013 \u003C\/strong\u003Euntil one day in March at Wal-Mart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tMateo said he filled his cart so full of toys for his seven-year-old, household goods, and ingredients for his beloved \u201cFrito pies\u201d that he had no room for the cappuccino maker he wanted for himself and Ashley. He shoved it on the rack below the cart and checked out, forgetting to put it on the belt. The store alarm sounded as he exited, and a petty theft charge landed him in jail. The charge was dismissed, he said, but he ended up in immigration detention, then shackled on a bus to Nuevo Laredo. His children keep asking when he\u2019ll be back, and he can\u2019t give an answer.\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}]