A respected coffee farmer in Hawaii was forced to leave his wife and three children and return to Mexico after living in the US for 28 years.

Andres Magana Ortiz, 43, came to America illegally when he was 15 to follow his mother. He eventually moved to Hawaii to pick coffee as a migrant worker.

Now he is one of the most respected coffee farmers in the Kona district and has played an important role in the coffee industry in Hawaii.

Andres Magana Ortiz, 43, was forced to leave his three children (pictured) and his wife in Hawaii to return to Mexico after living in the US for 28 years

Ortiz, pictured hugging two of his children, came to America illegally when he was 15 to follow his mother and pick coffee. Now he is one of the most respected coffee farmers in the Kona district

After an appeal to a March deportation order was denied, Ortiz was ordered to leave again. He was granted a 30-day reprieve in June and agreed to leave voluntarily if an agreement could not be reached. On Friday, Ortiz left Hawaii for Mexico. He is pictured in the airport

Ortiz has been trying to get legal citizenship and his wife and daughter have both filed for permission to let him stay in the country as the relative of a citizen.

He even had Hawaii’s congressional delegation trying to intervene on his behalf.

However, the Department of Homeland Security ordered him to report for removal in March, NBC News reported.

After his lawyer appealed the order, he was ordered to leave again, but was granted a 30-day reprieve in June and agreed to leave voluntarily if an agreement could not be reached.

Ortiz left Hawaii on Friday night. He even paid for his own tickets to return to Morelia in central Mexico, where he no longer has any family.

'We said our goodbyes at home,' his daughter Victoria Magana Ledesma, 20, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

'My dad decided it was better for my brother and my sister to not go all the way to the airport,' she said of her 12 and 14-year-old siblings.

Ortiz even had Hawaii’s congressional delegation trying to intervene on his behalf

Ortiz has played an important role in the coffee industry in Hawaii and is a well-respected member of his community

Even though Ortiz has been trying to get legal citizenship and his wife and daughter have both filed for permission to let him stay in the country as the relative of a citizen, the Department of Homeland Security ordered him to report for removal

'Very, very sad and very disappointed in many ways, but there’s not much I can do,' Ortiz told KNHL at the airport.

'Just follow what I have to do and hopefully, in a little bit, things can get better.'

But Ledesma said the family is 'still fighting to get him back here'.

After his lawyer appealed his initial deportation order from March, Ortiz's case gained national attention when a 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals judge criticized the Trump administration's order to deport him.

'President Trump has claimed that his immigration policies would target the "bad hombres",' Judge Stephen Reinhardt said in his opinion.

'The government's decision to remove Magana Ortiz shows that even the "good hombres" are not safe.'

However, Reinhardt said the 9th Circuit lacked authority to block the deportation order.