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The  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have now deported Jorge Garcia, a 39-year-old landscaper from Lincoln Park, Michigan after staying in the U.S for 30 years.

He had came to the U.S when he was 10 by an undocumented family member, but he stayed in the U.S, and now has a wife and two kids who are all U.S citizens. He was escorted out of the U.S with his wife, Cindy Garcia, why their daughter, Soleil cried on his shoulder.

Jorge Garcia has been given an order by the immigration court to leave the country in 2009, but under the Obama administration, he was given stays of removal, but the Trump administration campaigned to chase away undocumented immigrants from the U.S, hence, the crackdown. In November, he was told  to leave the country for Mexico.

Jorge Garcia age range does not qualify him for the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) which allows the children of undocumented immigrants before age 16 and were born after  June 15, 1981 to legally work and study in the U.S

Jorge Garcia will likely be banned from entering the U.S for another 10 years. On Monday morning, Jorge was removed from the U.S, accompanied by the security at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

President Donald Trump has finally signed a new executive order that will ban immigration from six countries, while dropping Iraq as part of the affected country. The new executive order bans travellers from Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

Donald Trump previous travel ban signed in January was held up in court, challenging the power in Washington, something that gave the new administration some time to go back to the drawing board to map out a new order that will be smoother, and won't embarrass the new government.

The ban exempts people with green cards from the ban, and also those with valid visa are also exempted.

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway while speaking to Trump's favourite TV program, "Fox and Friends" said;

If you have travel docs, if you actually have a visa, if you are a legal permanent resident, you are not covered under this particular executive action. Also, Iraq is no longer on the list based on their enhanced screening and reporting measures.

The Trump's previous ban included Iraq, but the new ban removed Iraq. According to an administration fact sheet, Iraq will "increase cooperation with the US government on the vetting of its citizens applying for a visa to travel to the United States."

Iraq was removed from the ban after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and national security adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster advised Trump that Iraq should not be included because of its role in helping the US military fight ISIS, and also for diplomatic reasons.

A Canadian gay man has been turned back twice by the US border immigration after they went through his gay dating website profile on Scruff and BBRT.

André,30, who did not give full name for fear of Immigration officials retaliating against his person said that the officers have taken him for a sex worker after they saw what he wrote on his profile"looking for loads" and have believed he was seeking sex to obtain cash.

He said he was visiting New Orleans to meet with his boyfriend, but while he was at the Vancouver customs preclearance, he was subjected to secondary inspection. The officer asked for his computer, phone and other possessions, and also demanded passwords for the devices.

After an hour or two, after André missed his flight, the immigration officer re-appeared and started to question him. André says“He came back and just started grilling me. ‘Is this your email?’ and it was an email attached to a Craigslist account for sex ads. He asked me, ‘Is this your account on Scruff? Is this you on BBRT?’ I was like, ‘Yes, this is me.’”

The officer asked what he had meant when he wrote "looking for loads" and all efforts to explain to the official was not working out, as he has seen in his face he was ready to send him back. He then asked for the interrogation to stop, and asked if he was to go back to Canada, is he he barred for life, and the officer said no, so he accepted the offer.

After a month of his ordeal, André decided to try again and visit his boyfriend, but this time, he had a letter from his employee, bank statements, pay stubs, lease agreements, phone contracts. He held all these documents to prove to the officer he intends to travel back to Canada.

When he went through secondary inspection again, the officers did not ask for his passwords, because it was saved in their system. Also, he had wiped off his phone of any sex apps, browser history and messages that will change the officers view of him soliciting money for sex, but instead this raises suspicion from the officers.

They went through my computer. They were looking through Word documents,” André says. “I had nude photos of myself on my phone, and they were questioning who this person was. It was really humiliating and embarrassing.

        They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’ and that was it. I wasn’t let through. He said I’m a suspected escort. You can’t really argue with them because you’re trapped.

The whole incident cost André $1200 on non-refundable flights and hotel on the two cancelled trips.