A Houston man who has lived in the U.S. since he was 1 is now stuck in Mexico. He was protected here under DACA, until he left.
"This isn’t home to me, it’s missing a big part of our lives. It's now just a house," said Martinez. "I actually spoke with him today. He cried on the phone because of a video of our baby I sent to him," she said.
He’s a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,or DACA. Avalos, a Mexican national, thought he arrived in the U.S. as a 1-year-old. In August 2022, at the age of 28, he intended to begin a pathway to US citizenship — but it turned into a road to nowhere. "They denied him for the simple fact that we didn't know that in 2002, they took him back to Mexico to register his adoption under his stepfather's last name," Martinez said.
Under U.S. immigration law, if you cross into the country illegally, leave and re-enter, you’re barred from returning for 10 years. There are no exceptions, not even for children. "The first thing that we have to conclude is that we're talking about three people, not just a person," said Rep. Al Green.
Green adds this is a textbook example of how law-abiding people can quickly fall through the cracks of immigration law.
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