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Longtime Texas chef who once catered for Bush deported after 36 years

Mar 25, 2025·Location: Waco, TX

Country of origin: Mexico

Longtime Texas chef who once catered for Bush deported after 36 years
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Sergio Garcia Silva, a 65-year-old chef who lived in the United States for 36 years, was deported to Mexico by ICE on March 25, 2025, after being arrested at his food truck in Waco. He had no criminal record aside from a two-decade-old deportation order for illegal re-entry that had never previously been enforced; his restaurant, El Siete Mares, had once catered a breakfast for President George W. Bush's White House press corps. After deportation, he was held captive by an extortion group in Mexico and was later apprehended by Border Patrol while attempting to return, resulting in a second deportation in June 2025. The ordeal separated him from his four U.S.-born children, though his wife, Sandra, later reunited with him in her hometown of Monterrey.

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