Abel Ortiz was brought from Mexico to LA when he was just two months old and has been living undocumented ever since. Now 38, he has a full life cutting hair, building a community, loving a city that has never fully loved him back. In a time of escalating ICE raids and the ache of uncertainty, Abel has made a radical decision: he’s leaving – not because he has to, but to escape perpetual limbo and be free to see the world.
To read more about Abel's drastic move to Mexico City as one of an unknown number of "self-deportees", you can click on Ed Pilkington's long read here.
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