Commentary: Deported and adrift in Mexico
by Alexandra Delano Alonso, Los Angeles Times
May 08, 2018
3 minutes
Each month this year, the United States has deported 15,000 migrants to Mexico. They join some 2.5 million others who have returned over the past decade - some forced to leave by deportation orders, others by economic and political conditions.
Back in the country of their birth, however, they face discrimination and exclusion anew. Nancy Landa, a young woman living in Tijuana after being deported in 2009, put it plainly when she made her story public: "Sometimes I feel that I have been more accepted in the
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