Full Coverage: Without a Country
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A couple’s devotion bridged a 41-year age gap, but a U.S. official said their marriage couldn’t be real.
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Ana and Gerardo’s devotion swayed many who doubted that a marriage with a 41-year age gap was real.
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Desperate to get back home after more than a year in Mexico, a young deportee makes another perilous border crossing.
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Luis Ernesto Rodriguez eyed the metal door as he waited for his little girls.
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The once-grand El Hotel Centenario is now the decrepit El Hotel del Migrante Deportado — the Hotel of the Deported Migrant. It hosts a procession of lost souls.
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Not even a church-run shelter is safe for migrants sent back to a dangerous region of Mexico by the United States. Viewed as rich targets, the deportees are vulnerable to kidnapping — and worse.
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Thousands of U.S.-born children now live throughout Mexico as a result of deportation of a family member. Disoriented, they struggle in a society that views them with a mix of envy and pity.
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Luis Luna, 20, was smuggled to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3. He grew up, went to school, found jobs. Then the Washington state resident was deported after a cop pulled him over for a broken headlight. He hopes to return on the undercarriage of a boxcar.
