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Melissa Sanchez and Mariam Elba | ProPublica

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Immigration

“I don’t want to be here anymore”: They tried to self-deport, then got stranded in Trump’s America

Melissa Sanchez and Mariam Elba | ProPublica

She desperately wanted to get out of the country. It was mid-May and Pérez, a Venezuelan mother of two, couldn’t survive on her own in Chicago anymore.