The day before federal agents arrested him, Carlos Daniel Terán Aguilar got his first American bike. He bought it at the local Goodwill store in Cedar Park—baby blue, BMX-style—and rode it around the neighborhood, doing wheelies in the parking lot of the local Chevron station. A friend took a video to mark the occasion. “¡Ándale!” his friend narrated, laughing as the eighteen-year-old circled on the pavement, adding, also in Spanish, “Baby Jesus arrived late this year, but he arrived!” That was Saturday, January 25. On Sunday morning, just past eight, three officers gathered at the Cedar Park home where Daniel—as his family calls him—lived with his father and stepmother, Juan Carlos and Marian Terán, and their two-year-old son, Juan Felipe. They were all from Venezuela, and…
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