73 yr old stroke victim, 50 yrs in US, deported to a place he's never been. "Where am I?" [View all]

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Homeless and stateless: Deportees from U.S. are trapped in Mexico

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-03-21/mexico-deportations

The Mexican immigration agents who had guarded the group on their three-day trip from the border said their charges, still dressed in the prison garb of detainees, were now free to go.

Alberto Rodríguez, 73, limped with a cane down a deserted industrial street. A stroke had left him perpetually foggy, unable to recall many details about his life beyond the fact that he had been born in Cuba and had spent nearly 50 years in the United States.

“Where am I?” he called out.

“Villahermosa,” someone answered.

Like most of the others, Rodríguez had never set foot in Mexico and had never heard of this city of a million people surrounded by dense jungle. The deportees wandered in the dark until they found a park, where Rodríguez spent the first of what would be many nights curled up on the ground, trying to sleep.


As part of his sweeping immigration crackdown, President Trump has sent deportees to nations that are not their home countries, including Rwanda, El Salvador and South Sudan.

But by far the largest number of third-country deportees are being quietly sent to Mexico, where they are quickly bused to smaller cities thousands of miles south of the U.S. border.