An Ohio businessman deported from the US after 39 years arrived in his native Jordan last week and was immediately overcome with tears of heartbreak and joy.

Amer Adi Othman, 57, was put on a plane and flown back to Jordan by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials with nothing but the clothes he was wearing and $300 in his pocket.

Othman, who is known locally as Al Adi, was met at the airport by his 94-year-old mother, his siblings and their children.

He hasn't seen his wheelchair-bound mother in 20 years.

Amer Adi Othman, 57, (pictured above on January 2) was put on a plane and flown back to Jordan last week with nothing but the clothes he was wearing and $300 in his pocket

'I have mixed feelings, very mixed feelings. I'm so happy, so glad to be here, my home, to see my mother, my brother, my family, my friends, that makes me proud and happy,' Adi told CNN at the arrival gate.

'At the same time, I feel so sad of what happened to me.

'I'm so sorry to tell you what happened is unjust, not right, and everyone back there knows that. What the Trump administration is doing is - you can't even explain it.'

Othman, who came to the US when he was 19, was forced to leave behind his wife and four daughters who are all American citizens.

He owns several businesses in Youngstown, Ohio having opened a deli in 2011 and a hookah bar in 2015.

The Ohio businessman who was deported from the US after 39 years was met in Jordan by his 94-year-old mother who he hadn't seen in 20 years

Othman, known locally as Al Adi, was forced to leave behind his wife and four daughters (three of whom are pictured above) - who are all American citizens

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Othman has been described by Congressman Tim Ryan as a 'pillar' of the community given he creates jobs and donates hundreds of turkeys to disadvantaged families on Thanksgiving.

Youngstown Mayor Jamael 'Tito' Brown, a Democrat, said his deportation would be a loss for their city.

Othman was taken into custody on January 16 when he showed up for what he thought was an ICE check-in after earlier being told his deportation was temporarily delayed.

His attorney, David Leopold, said he and his client are very disappointed, and still do not understand why he was arrested.

'He had planned to leave, and he and his wife had sold their home and bought plane tickets to Jordan,' Leopold said.

His daughters Rania Adi, Lana Adi, Fidaa Musleh and Lina Adi (pictured above) staged a protest outside their father's Ohio business in January after he was arrested

'Why would you lock someone up, just so you can deport him at taxpayers' expense?'

Othman, who has no criminal record, was deported after spending two weeks in custody.

He came to the US when he was 19 and obtained his green card through his first wife.

His application for a second green card was denied in the 1990s when officials claimed his first marriage was fraudulent.

However, a court affidavit shows his ex-wife said she signed the original statement claiming a fraudulent marriage under duress when Immigration and Naturalization Service officials went to her home.