After nearly 20 years of working as an immigration officer for the US Customs and Border Protection agency, Raul Rodriguez knew a lot about deportation – he processed them. What he didn't know was that he would soon fear deportation himself.
When Rodriguez – who has lived in the US for almost 50 years and served with the US Navy for five separate deployments –
started the process of helping his brother emigrate from Mexico to the US, he began submitting his own citizenship paperwork along with his brother's to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Then, he got a call from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG): they had found a birth certificate for Rodriguez that showed he was born in Mexico,
KRGV News reports.
Rodriguez said had never seen the birth certificate before, but once the OIG began a criminal investigation into whether his brother's immigration application had been falsified on Rodriguez's part, his father admitted that he actually had been born in Mexico.