Inside a San Francisco courtroom on Tuesday, Rosa Lopez sat with her daughter in the second pew, nervously fidgeting with her ring. Meanwhile her husband, Miguel Lopez, 47, was 2,213 miles away in Chimalhuacán, Mexico, where he’d been deported in June, waiting to learn his fate in a case that had held his life and his family’s suspended for more than a decade.

Mission Local is following Lopez’s case — an example of an undocumented man who has lived the majority of his life in the United States but must now reckon with life in a country he barely knows.

It’s a slim chance: There are very few cases where people are successfully brought back after being deported. But Tuesday’s court case meant a possible path for Miguel to return to Livermore and his wife and three children and granddaugh

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