A 39-year-old man born on a U.S. military base to an American father now finds himself stranded and homeless in Jamaica after being deported to a country he's never been to and isn't a citizen of.
Jermaine Thomas, speaking from a Kingston homeless shelter, told CNN the surreal experience is difficult to process. "It's too hard to put in words," he said. "I just think to myself, this can't really be happening."
Thomas was born in 1986 at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Kenyan mother and a U.S. citizen father who served over a decade in the Army. His family returned to the U.S. when he was 3, and he grew up in Florida and Virginia before spending most of his adult life in Texas.