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HARLINGEN - Buses line up in the same place every time. Waiting for the plane to land at Valley International Airport.

The buses stay in formation, armed men stand guard as a line of illegals file out of the plane.

All of the men are from Mexico. Flown into the Valley from detention centers across the country. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is deporting them.

The group we followed were dropped off at the Gateway Bridge in Brownsville.

Some of them, convicted criminals.

Armando Gutierrez was caught with a load of cocaine in the big rig he was driving.

He was found guilty and lost his visa.

Now he has to start his life all over again in Mexico.

His wife and kids are in El Paso. Gutierrez says he will move to Juarez. He has no plans to try to return to the U.S.

"I don't wanna go through this again," he says.

Others in the group have a different story. Some of them tell CHANNEL 5 NEWS they will try to cross the river once they get back into Mexico.

Authorities say it's an on going problem.

"We have people that are constant removals. They come in, go back, come back," says Mike Watkins.

Watkins is in charge of the Port Isabel Detention Center. He says ICE tries to coordinate with the Mexican government so those who've been deported can connect with their families.

Convicted criminals from other countries get a one-way flight home on "ICE Air."

CHANNEL 5 NEWS went on a flight from the Valley to El Salvador.

That's where we met Fernando Enreque Arucha.

He was living in Los Angeles. A misdemeanor conviction for vandalism cost him his green card.

After 25 years in America he must now start over with little more than $50.

The El Salvadoran government will try to find him a job. He can expect to make as little as $10 a day. The same amount he used to make every hour working in Los Angeles.

"It hurts. You see me here, but inside it hurts. It's like a flame in your heart," he says.

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