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The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips and Clavel Rangel

‘They disappear them’: families of the detained see grim echo of Latin American dictatorships in Trump’s US

A brightly illuminated photo of Arturo Suárez wearing a loud shirt, displayed on a phone held by a woman standing in the dark
A photo of Arturo Suárez, one of many migrants to the US detained without account by immigration officials, held by his partner Photograph: Cristóbal Olivares/The Guardian

Neiyerver Rengel’s captors came one sunny spring morning, lurking outside the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and pouncing as soon as he emerged.

The three government agents announced the young Venezuelan man had “charges to answer” and was being detained.

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