Random meeting with ICE officer leads to Canadian's self

After his work visa expired more than a year ago, Henry Cortez carried his Canadian passport with him while living in Las Vegas. When a stranger saw it, it spelled trouble

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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. Article content

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. Article content Article content

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.

A stranger noticed th