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U.S.-born children who return from parent's native country face unique hardships
Jordi Garcia Leal returned to the United States four years ago. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., his mom decided to return to her native Mexico when he was 5 years old.

“I’m unaware of the reasons she decided to return. I spent my entire youth over there,” Garcia Leal said.

When he arrived in Morelos, Mexico, he spoke English. He didn’t understand Spanish. When he started school he had to learn Spanish and his English faded away.

Garcia Leal was 20 years old when decided to come back to the United States.
 
Data on how many U.S. citizen children return to a deported parent’s native country is hard to come by. Garcia Leal is one of an unknown number of young people who decide to return. [Read the full story by reporter Vicki Adame]
 
What else we're watching:
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on Monday made public additional body camera video from the Feb. 2 police killing of Amir Locke. The newly-released video includes additional footage from the perspectives of 12 officers, including Mark Hanneman, who were at the scene that morning.

Judge Peter Cahill revealed during a pre-trial hearing that prosecutors had offered three former Minneapolis officers plea deals in late March, but that none had accepted the deals. Details of the plea offers are being kept confidential by the court.

President Joe Biden asked India's Narendra Modi on Monday not to accelerate the buying of Russian oil  as the U.S. and other nations try to cut off Moscow's energy income following the invasion of Ukraine.

The Biden administration is unveiling a completed rule aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers. Such weapons have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers.
-- Sara Porter, MPR News
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