A day earlier, the 58-year-old grandfather of eight US citizens was on his way to work when immigration agents surrounded his car in Midland, Texas, just blocks from his home. Ortega missed by some 24 hours a dramatic policy change by the new president that could have spared him. Ortega said his family never planned to stay long in the United States when they crossed in the 1990s. A SCARRED HOMETOWNOrtega returned to Mexico for the first time in 30 years to find his hometown of El Porvenir, around an hour south of Ciudad Juarez, totally transformed. “I don’t know where to begin.”Barring changes to immigration laws under Biden, there is currently no clear path for him to return.

Source: Egypt Independent January 27, 2021 11:03 UTC