A Lancaster construction worker is lost in Tijuana right now because authorities deported him, mistaking him for an illegal immigrant. It all started when Pedro Guzman, 29, was arrested for trespassing at a junkyard and sentenced to jail. About a month ago, he called his mother from Tijuana and said he didn't know why he had been deported:
His mother, Maria Carbajal, said she spent the last month in Tijuana living out of her car while searching in vain for her son. She said neither the U.S. nor the Mexican government has helped in her search for him. [...] She said she left fliers bearing her son's image at the morgue, hospitals, cantinas, churches and shelters for poor immigrants.
Guzman, who is developmentally disabled, was born in L.A. The ACLU is suing. And the movie gods are shaking their heads in sadness at this unfortunate case of life imitating art:
Here's hoping they find Pedro safe and sound.
