Javier, a 62-year-old Cuban man from Orlando, Florida, arrived in the United States alone at age 18 and enrolled in university in Wisconsin while working as a restaurant busboy. At the time of his arrest, he was balancing two jobs at a car dealership and a convention center. He had lived in the United States for 44 years. After deportation to Villahermosa, Mexico, he became homeless due to diabetes-related vision impairments that made it difficult to find work. He described living in a 'little cave of sorts' by a gas station: 'I shake out my shirt, I put some pieces of cardboard on the ground. I use the shirt to cover myself up. I'm sleeping on the street. Like a dog.'