A Salvadoran man with a criminal record was recently arrested at San Francisco International Airport while trying to board a flight to self-deport.

After three weeks in custody, a federal court convicted him of being in the country illegally following a prior removal, according to court documents, and he is now expected to be deported back to El Salvador — exactly where he was attempting to go when he was detained.

Jeisson Rony Escobar-Valencia, 30, was brought to the Bay Area at 11 years old by his father, who had obtained temporary protected status due to unsafe conditions in El Salvador. Escobar-Valencia spent the entirety of his adolescent and adult life in the U.S, where he now has a 2-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter, according to documents filed by his attorney, Elisse Larouch

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