Napoleon Andres Magaña and his stepfather, Arturo Garcia Cabrera, were detained last month by immigration authorities who broke into their Gresham apartment and then into a bedroom with rifles drawn looking for a different person.

For Garcia Cabrera, that was just the beginning of an ordeal that stranded him on the other side of the country.

The federal government transferred Garcia Cabrera four different times to four different states before releasing him in Mississippi, where he had no cellphone and no family. It took him almost a week to get a ride and travel home.

“It was awful and complicated for him to be able to return here,” his stepdaughter, Maricruz Andres, said in Spanish.

Andres Magaña and Garcia Cabrera wrongfully entered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody

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