This is updated from our original story.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service had declared that Dario Guerrero Meneses, an illegal immigrant, effectively deported himself when he crossed the border without permission to accompany his dying mother to clinics offering alternative cancer treatments in Mexico.
His mother died in August, and the agency denied Guerrero's initial attempts to return home to his remaining family in California.
But only hours . . .
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