American dream derailed
Sunday, September 14
(updated 3:00 am)
By Jason Hardin
Staff Writer

GREENSBORO — Moises Campos Palencia made a left turn that changed his life — possibly forever.

Police last month stopped Palencia, saying the light had turned red before he made it through the intersection.

Palencia didn’t get a ticket, but they found he had a standing deportation order dating to when he was a child brought here illegally by his parents.

Now the Greensboro business owner is sitting in a Georgia jail, hoping he can stay legally and wondering when he’ll see his wife and 4-year-old daughter — both U.S. citizens — again.

Palencia said his life is here, not Mexico.

“I went to school. I graduated. I started my business. I paid my taxes,â€