# The dizzying speed of Trump’s deportation machine: Fresno man lands in Mexico 16 days after arrest

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. MEXICALI, Mexico — As the smell of manure from California’s Imperial Valley wafted across the border into this sprawling Mexican industrial city, Luis Arreguin glanced up at a burnt-orange cathedral in the downtown square. It was the first time he’d seen it since he left Mexico as a child, decades ago. Arreguin, 54, had called a small community near Fresno home since he was 5. But on Oct. 1, federal immigration agents pulled him over on his way to work. He was among the first of about 130 people who advocat

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