He Deported Thousand Of People From US Before Learning He Was Undocumented Himself

 

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Raul Rodriguez says he’ll never forget the moment he realized his life was built on a lie.

He was so shaken that he felt the blood rushing to his feet. In a matter of seconds, a family secret had shattered the way he saw the world and his place in it.

It all began in April 2018 when federal investigators showed him a shocking document: a Mexican birth certificate with his name on it.

A conversation with his father soon afterward confirmed what Rodriguez had feared as soon as he saw the paperwork. The US birth certificate he’d used for decades was fraudulent. Rodriguez wasn’t a US citizen. He was an undocumented immigrant.

Rodriguez says he had no idea he’d been born in Mexico before his father’s confession that day, but he knew immediately how serious the situation was. He’d spent nearly two decades working for the US government at the border.

He lost so much so quickly after that: his job at CBP, his friends in law enforcement, his sense of self. He hasn’t seen his father since that day in April 2018 and says he never wants to speak with him again.

“He’d been all over the world for the US,” his wife Anita Rodriguez says, “and yet he couldn’t travel outside his own backyard. He couldn’t go past a [Border Patrol] checkpoint.”

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