‘A cruel joke’: California father freed from prison can’t go home after ICE deports him

Ramon Ruelas challenged a guest to a chess game at 7 a.m. in Mexicali, Mexico, near the border with California, where he’d spent almost a decade in prison. 

The 33-year-old Mexican-born father played with pure concentration, until his 5-week-old daughter, Jasmine, started crying in a back room of his house. She was visiting him.