Tag: returning migrants
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Returning migrants find Mexico transformed by drug cartels and violence
Returning migrants face a transformed homeland Adrián Ramírez hadn’t visited his hometown in western Mexico for more than two decades. When he finally returned early last year after a successful deportation from the United States, he found the town he left as a teenager reshaped by forces he could scarcely recognize. The streets he remembered…
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Returning Migrants Find Mexico Transformed by Drug Cartels and Violence
From Deportation to a Changed Homeland Adrián Ramírez hadn’t visited his western Mexican hometown in more than two decades. After a deportation from the United States, he returned early last year to a place he barely recognized. What he found was not merely a familiar street corner or a childhood alley, but a community pressed…