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Adam Davis holds his phone, showing a photo of himself, his dad and his older brother posing on top of a mountain in Ethiopia.
Adam Davis holds his phone, showing a photo of himself, his dad and his older brother posing on top of a mountain in Ethiopia. His father, Mike Davis, was deported more than 20 years ago despite being adopted by an American. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

Updated on 8/30/24 at 1:14 p.m.

Mike Davis sat in front of a blank wall in an apartment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

“In 1978 we moved to Augusta, Georgia, bought our house, lived there.” he said. “I went to school there. Glen Hills High. I was on the tennis team, the soccer team.”