Returns!

A space to celebrate people who have come home

  • Brigido Acosta | July 2021

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  • Miguel Angel Valdiva-Vera | July 2021

    After more than two-and-a-half years in Mexico, a local farmworker has been allowed to return to the United States.

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  • Esmeralda | August 2021

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  • Howard Bailey | August 2021

    The country he fought for sent him into exile. But this veteran finally came home.

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    Amer Adi | September 2021

    Deported city businessman back in Valley.

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  • Claudio Rojas | October 2021

    Claudio Rojas was allowed back into the U.S. He's one of several activists deported but then allowed to return after arguing that immigration authorities retaliated against them.

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  • Robert Vivar | November 2021

    After winning a case before the California Supreme Court, Robert Vivar walked back to San Diego from Tijuana on Veterans Day

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  • Mauricio Hernandez Mata & Leonel Contreras | February 2022

    Deported veterans Mauricio Hernandez Mata, center right, and Leonel Contreras embrace after being sworn in as U.S. citizens at a special naturalization ceremony Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in San Diego. Both Army veterans, the two men were among 65 who have been allowed back into the United States nearly a year ago as part of a growing effort by the U.S. government to recognize the service of immigrants who served in the U.S. military only to wind up deported.

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  • Alejandra Juárez | March 2022

    EEUU permite regreso de algunos inmigrantes deportados

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  • Issa Sao | April 2022

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  • Lorenzo Charles | September 2022

    Deported 20 years ago, Brooklyn man’s extraordinary fight to return reaches an end

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  • Danny Castro | December 2022

    Undocumented Newark Man is Reunited with Family after 4 years

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  • Gideon Baena | January 2023

    A family in California has been reunited after 20 years when a wrongful conviction sent a young man to a country he barely knew — the Philippines.

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  • Jean Montrevil | April 2023

    Ending 30-Year Saga, Judge Rules Haitian Activist Targeted by ICE Should Not Face Deportation Again

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  • Laura Meza | April 2023

    Veteran returns to the U.S. after 14-year exile under Biden effort to rectify "unjust" deportations

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