According to media reports, immigration officials at the Texas/Mexico border put a U.S.-born Texas man behind bars for five days over citizenship concerns. Now he faces deportation.

Dr. Edgar Basaldua has spent years driving daily between his home in McAllen, Texas, and his private practice in Reynosa, Mexico. The border crossing was routine, but on Monday, August 25 something was different.

Even though Basaldua had social security, a Texas drivers' license, a U.S. passport and a birth certificate, reported Telemundo, border officials detained him as he returned home from work. Then they put him in the Port Isabel Detention Center where immigrants are held.

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"It's traumatic," Basaldua told KGBT TV news. "They call it a detention center—it's really a prison."

Basaldua told media that officials said they were detaining him until they found proof he was born in the United States. Problems apparently arose from Basaldua's dual Mexican and American citizenship.

"I don't know if the problem is necessarily that he has dual citizenship," Basaldua's attorney, Gregorio Lopez, told Telemundo. "I think that what immigration officials will allege is that he is actually not a citizen of the United States."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement told KGBT they could not comment on the case, but offered that agents may be less concerned with people using fake documents, which are easy to spot, and more concerned with people using real documents that belong to someone else.

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On Friday, August 28, Lopez secured Basaldua's release from behind bars. Now the doctor faces deportation if he cannot prove he was born in Texas. Lopez said removal proceedings were underway.

Basaldua told KGBT, "I will not renounce my American citizenship. I have been one my whole life."

He said he hopes to obtain records from the Texas Department of State Health Services Vital Statistics Unit to prove his place of birth.