I came across this story HuffPo strory: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/saads-story-a-deported-st_n_816321.html
about Saad Nabeel, a 20 year old Texas native who was arrested, detained and deported, and a Texas Businessman named Ralph Isenberg who seems like a kindred spirit:

Isenberg was raised in Wisconsin by refugees from Nazi Germany. By his own account, he barely made it through high school. He eventually found his way to Dallas, where he specializes in distressed-property management. “I like going and managing where no one else wants to manage,” he says.

Isenberg works on immigration cases 15 hours a day, seven days a week. Not being an attorney, he says he uses business techniques to solve immigration situations. He’s a relentless caller and letter-writer, pressuring officials in Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He asks influential friends to help, and he’s not afraid to pull out his checkbook. Last August, he paid $10,000 to attend a Democratic fundraising dinner with President Obama in the hopes of discussing Nabeel’s situation with him, only to be uninvited at the last minute — he was told he had been “tagged by the White House.” “They took my money, and then, no invite and no explanation,” Isenberg told the Dallas Observer.