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Alicia Civita

Venezuelan Immigrant Returns to U.S. After Wrongful Deportation Separated Him From Wife and Children for Nine Months

The badges of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are seen as they patrol the halls of immigration court (Credit: Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

A Venezuelan immigrant who was deported from the United States after being arrested in Chicago during the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz has returned to the country after a court fight found his removal was a mistake.

José Enrique Ojeda Duarte arrived back in the U.S. this week, ending a nine-month separation from his wife and two children, according to N+ Univision. In an emotional interview, Ojeda Duarte described what happened: "What they did to me is illegal," he told the network.

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