Thread: CA-SOB-U.S. adoptee a stranger in his birthplace

U.S. adoptee a stranger in his birthplace





Burglary conviction leads to deportation
By Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

July 20, 2008

A man adopted by a U.S. couple when he was 6 months old has been deported to El Salvador after spending five years in immigration detention in Otay Mesa while he appealed his case.


Union-Tribune file photo
Jess Mustanich, shown at an immigration detention facility in Otay Mesa in 2005, was deported to El Salvador this month.
Jess Mustanich, 29, arrived in El Salvador on July 10 after losing his appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last spring, a proceeding that stemmed from a burglary conviction 11 years ago. Described by his father as “a middle-class white kidâ€