Tag: returning migrants


  • Returning migrants find Mexico transformed by drug cartels and violence

    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…

  • Returning Migrants Find Mexico Transformed by Drug Cartels and Violence

    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…