Credit: FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

(KMSP) - Just minutes before the plane meant to take Maxamed Adan back to Somalia against his will was set to take off, immigration authorities yanked the Minnesota man off the plane--a welcome respite from deportation for a man who's been in the United States for more than 20 years.

Now, he's back home in Minneapolis with his family and sharing his harrowing ordeal.

Adan is one of only a handful of men who received emergency stays by a federal judge last month and are allowed to be back in Minnesota, just a portion of the 92 Somali nationals now facing deportation.