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He said he finished in the top 15 percent of his class.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\n\tHe met his US-citizen wife, Maryjo, online after high school, and moved to San Antonio, Texas, for a while to be near her \u201camazing\u201d old-San Antonio, German-Mexican family. But the high-paid stucco work of Dallas drew him back, and Maryjo went with him. The move was expensive, Alexis had no work for a month-and-a-half, and he didn\u2019t have the US$500 for his two-year DACA renewal in 2016.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\n\tStill, by March 2017, he and Maryjo managed to get married. Their honeymoon ended on June 4, when a fight broke out at a flea market and carnival. Alexis had gone with his brothers, Francisco and Andres, and Andres\u2019s family. He says that he doesn\u2019t know exactly what happened, but that as Andres stepped off a ride with his 3-year-old, the operator shoved him. In the scuffle that followed, Alexis said his sister-in-law, with a baby strapped to her chest, was knocked down, and he \u201csnapped,\u201d shoving a security guard. He was arrested by police, charged with assault, and handed over to ICE.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\n\tThe immigration detention center was so full that night that Alexis and Andres, arrested at the same time, slept under a staircase. It was Alexis\u2019s first time in immigration detention, and Andres, who had been deported twice before, advised him to sign for voluntary removal. He did.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\n\t\u201cI think a few years ago, you really were able to fight a case and have a fair trial, and they\u2019d give you a chance. Now I think they\u2019re just deporting us for anything. 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