Federal government allows return of U.S. citizen deported after traffic stop in Central Texas

Morales was deported to Mexico in April after a traffic stop near Fredericksburg, where officers who pulled over the vehicle he was riding in did not believe his claims of U.S. Citizenship and contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He told the Texas Tribune he was born in Denver, grew up in Mexico, and had been living and working in Texas when the stop occurred.

For people here in Texas, the case raises hard questions about what happens when someone insists they are an American citizen and the government disagrees. Morales said he had copies of his birth certificate and repeatedly told authorities he was born in the United States. That was not enough to stop his removal.

His attorneys provided new evidence about his citizenship, though its specific nature has not been disclosed publicly, and the federal government agreed to allow his return.

A U.S. Citizen was deported to another country and had to negotiate a legal agreement just to come home.