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The ‘self-deportee’ hounded out of the US to Mexico: ‘There are days when I feel literally insane’ (www.theguardian.com)

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A couple of weekends ago, as dusk was falling over the Escandón neighbourhood of Mexico City, Abel Ortiz was startled by the sound of two American women yelling at each other on the street outside his apartment.

They were nose to nose, screaming in English while bemused Mexicans looked on.

“I can’t believe you called my fucking mom!” said one.

“You should go back home!” bellowed the other.

What jarred Ortiz even more than the spectacle of two American tourists behaving badly was his own reaction. He wanted to run out and confront them.

“No, you don’t get to do that!” he imagined himself telling them. “Not in my country!”

His visceral response surprised him. Though Mexican by birth, Ortiz has spent a total of only nine months in the country. He was spirited away by his parents in search of a better life in the US when he was only two months old. He went on to live for 38 years in Los Angeles, rarely stepping outside the city.

Until Donald Trump came along, casting undocumented people like him as public enemy No 1, Ortiz perceived himself to be wholly American.

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