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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Milwaukee mother deported to Laos ‘shaken’ as she faces decades without family in U.S.

A Milwaukee woman who was deported to Laos by the Trump administration earlier this month is deeply “shaken” by the prospect of spending more than a decade away from her partner and five children back home in Wisconsin, activists helping the family told The Independent.

Ma Yang, a 37-year-old Hmong-American, has been living in a government facility outside the Laotian capital of Vientiane for the past couple of weeks after being forced to leave her family and friends in the U.S.

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