NEW — From deportee to rising soccer star: How Lizandro Claros Saravia, 22, broke into El Salvador& #39;s top fútbol league after a demoralizing deportation from the U.S.
"Deportation really made me strong," he told @CBSNews.
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If the routine check-in with ICE in the summer of 2017 had gone as they had for nearly a decade, Lizandro would be playing college soccer in North Carolina.
His former coaches in the U.S. think he would likely have been drafted by an @MLS team.
His former coaches in the U.S. think he would likely have been drafted by an @MLS team.
Instead, Lizandro and his brother were deported 7 months after Pres. Trump took office and implemented an immigration enforcement regime that did not exempt any undocumented immigrant from deportation—not even a college-bound teenager with a clean record and a soccer scholarship.