A DACA recipient had permission to leave the country but was deported when he returned

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A DACA recipient had permission to leave the country but was deported when he returned

Evenezer Cortez Martínez said he’s still scared and finds it hard to believe he’s back home in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife and children, after being deported to Mexico by U.S. immigration authorities in March.“I wake up every now and then saying, 'this is a dream.' When I look at my wife and my children, I feel joy, that peace, but I still have that doubt about whether it’s really true that I’m here,” he said, his voice breaking.Cortez Martínez, a 40-year-old father of three and maintenance worker in the Shawnee Mission School District, was born in the Mexican ..