Follow-up: Wrongly deported disabled man found

A mentally disabled U.S. citizen who was reported missing after being deported to Mexico has been found. "He is at home, beginning what will be a long recuperation process," said a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Pedro Guzman (image from April 2007) was found wandering along the U.S.-Mexico border nearly three months after his family reported him as missing.

As Reuters noted, Guzman’s mother was glad to be reunited with her son, but displeased with his condition:

“Guzman's mother Maria Carbajal, choking back sobs at a news conference, said her son was not the same as when she last saw him in jail, where he was serving time on charges of trespassing.

‘They took him whole, but only returned half of him to me,’ she said.”

Guzman’s family and the ACLU are suing the U.S. government over his deportation, though government officials claimed that they acted properly and that Guzman is not mentally disabled.

Sources- FOX News, the Latin Americanist, Reuters, Los Angeles Times

Image- KNSD