With Christmas just days away, ABC11 sat down with the family of Fidel Rivera, the undocumented Rolesville man who self-deported earlier this year amid concerns about the growing immigration crackdown.
Rivera left on a flight back to Mexico on Oct. 13, despite working and paying taxes in the United States for 30 years, to avoid the worst-case scenario of ending up in an immigration detention facility.
“I didn’t want to have him go into one of these facilities,” said Jenni Rivera, Fidel’s wife of 17 years. “I didn’t want him to experience any of the horrors that we had heard about. And I didn’t want him to come out, not the person that he was when he went in.”…