This started back during Bush 43. It’s both a deportation and a death sentence. The outcome would be the same if they had just murdered him on the spot. But, MAGA will justify anything their orange god tells them.
In subreddit r/AskUS
In a post titled:
For everyone who was confident that the US government was only deporting illegals who were criminals, what do you think now that the government has publicly confirmed it mistakenly deported a legal immigrant who is the father of a 5yo US citizen child?