Pedro Guzman found

From the AP report:

LOS ANGELES – A U.S. citizen who was wrongly deported in May was found at a border crossing over the weekend and was expected to be reunited with his family Tuesday, according to an American Civil Liberties Union spokesman.

Superior Court Judge Carlos Chung ordered Pedro Guzman's release at a hearing Tuesday morning in Lancaster. Guzman, 29, was expected to rejoin his family later in the day, according to ACLU Southern California spokesman Michael Soller.

Guzman, who lives in Lancaster, had been in Los Angeles County sheriff's custody since being detained over the weekend in Calexico, just across the border from Mexicali, Mexico.

Lawyers for Guzman told ACLU officials that the he appeared traumatized and exhausted from his nearly three months living on the streets in Mexico.

“I think he's in fairly rocky physical shape,” said Celeste Durant, a spokeswoman for the group.

Photo description: A head-and-shoulders color photo of Pedro Guzman, apparently cropped from a family photo as there is part of a torso of someone else visible standing behind him.

(Yeah, yeah, I'm still on my blogging break, but I've checked and rechecked for good news with this story for so long now, I'm excited to share it here.)

Update 8/11: Nezua at The Unapologetic Mexican writes on Guzman's tragic adventures. Also, this news story via his coverage:

[Guzman] ate out of garbage cans, bathed in rivers and was repeatedly turned away by US border agents when he tried to return to California, his family said.

Pedro Guzman, 29, was picked up at the Calexico border crossing over the weekend and released to his family yesterday.

Guzman was shaking, stuttering and appeared traumatized, his family said at a news conference. The family said it planned to seek medical attention for Guzman, who was not at the news conference.

"They took him whole, but only returned half of him to me," his mother, Maria Carbajal, said in Spanish while crying. "The government is responsible for this." The family had been searching for Guzman in Tijuana since he was deported May 11.

They said Guzman told them yesterday that he had tried to return to the United States several times but was turned away. He walked more than 160km to Calexico, the family said.