This Michigan dad lived in America for nearly 30 years. Then he was deported to Mexico.

Jorge Garcia was brought to the U.S. from Mexico at age 10 and spent the next three decades building a life in Michigan. Now he's been sent back to a homeland that doesn't feel like home.

Jorge Garcia.
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Standing outside his new home sloped on a bumpy street, Jorge Garcia turns his head and gazes down the block of a working-class city about an hour northwest of Mexico City.

Roving vendors hawk everything from tamales to gasoline, yelling out the names of their products. A few houses down, a rooster crows. His new neighbors glance at him warily. "I feel like I'm lost," Garcia says, his eyes taking in the valley and hills of the city of Nicolás Romero on a Friday morning in January. "I don't fit in here, at all."

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