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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Laughland in Alexandria, Louisiana

‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation

a woman and two children swirl into a black hole

It was a highway exit sign that gave away their final destination: Alexandria, Louisiana.

They were driven in the back of an immigration enforcement truck – their belongings confiscated and their passports seized. Rosario* and her two US citizen children – one of whom has stage 4 kidney cancer – had no idea where agents were planning to take them.

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