A Toronto man who recently self-deported from the United States says he was told to do so after an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer noticed his Canadian passport in his wallet at a pet store.

Henry Cortez had been living in Las Vegas for five years, but his visa had expired more than a year ago, he told National Post in an interview.

He hadn’t gotten round to renewing it. That suddenly became a problem when he went into a PetSmart in the city’s Summerlin suburb to buy supplies for his cat, Smokie.

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A stranger noticed the Canadian passport he carries as identification, and joked: “You’re from Canada, eh?”

“And then after that, I paid for my stuff, and I said, hey, thanks, have a nice day. And he go

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