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Hector Alessandro Negrete was brought to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 months old. He discovered he lacked papers after he applied for college.

Negrete chose to leave L.A. for a land he barely knew in light of President Trump’s return to the White House and his promises of mass deportations.

Refusing to use the Trump administration’s term of ‘self-deportation,’ Negrete refers to his move as ‘self-repatriation.’

On an overcast morning in September, Hector Alessandro Negrete left his beloved Los Angeles — the city he was brought to at 3 months old — and headed down Interstate 5 to Mexico, the only country where he held a passport.

It was a place that, to him, had “always felt

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