Gotcha. That makes sense. Sucks on a lot of fronts but makes sense. Although, man, that's a lot of drama.They stayed in the U.S.. Wife divorced him. His oldest daughter must have been 8 or 9 by the time it all played out.
The wife ended up hooking up with another one of his friends, who also happened to be an illegal (another overstay), except from the UK. He was an all-pro motorcycle mechanic who was working in Costa Mesa. I lost track of them after that so I don't know how any of that played out.