Deported Salvadorans in Times of Trump
By Edgardo Ayala
David Antonio Pérez, 42, spent five years in various detention centres for undocumented immigrants in the United States, as he appealed his case to avoid deportation. Back in El Salvador, where he has already been deported twice, his future is marked by the taste of defeat and a sense of uncertainty. Credit: Edgardo Ayala / IPS
SAN SALVADOR, Mar 16 2018 (IPS) - Carrying a red plastic bag containing an old pair of shoes and a few other belongings, David Antonio Pérez arrives to El Salvador, deported from the United States.
David Antonio, 42, is a divorced father of two who has lived in the U.S. for a total of 12 years. He has spent five years in detention facilities for undocumented immigrants in three cities of the state of California, because his immigration case was drawn out by the appeals he filed in an attempt to avoid deportation.
After being locked up for so long, my plans are to go outside. Now I want to go eat, and the rest of the afternoon I want to walk around and feel the freedom, he tells IPS after completing the paperwork in the governmental Immigrant Assistance Centre, which operates under the Department of Migration and Alien Affairs (DGME) and is located on the east side of the capital.
David Antonio is returning to El Salvador on a Wednesday, along with 96 other people, on one of the flights chartered by the US federal government, from Houston, Texas.
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