My brother's cousin (long story) was taken to the US when his mom married a GI. He grew up, served in the Marines, got back, worked, got popped as accessory to a robbery, and on the day he thought he was going to hit the streets INS took him straight from his cell in the state pen to a detention center. He was deported on a commercial flight - handcuffed to a federal marshal who had served in the exact same Marine unit ten years before... Told him he was lucky where he was being deported to did not have a "patois". He only knew the name of my mom, because she baby sat him - and she was married to his uncle, not a blood relation. She took him in for a year to get on his feet. He's been allowed after 20+ years to visit the US on a tourist visa now.