U.S. marshals unlock the prisoners’ leg shackles, body chains and handcuffs when green jungle and turquoise sea come into close view. As the U.S. government’s MD-83 airliner bumps to the ground at the small San Salvador airport, the 44 men and five women being deported home to El Salvador cheer. One man belts out a few bars of a Tom Petty song: “I’m free-ee….” For a growing number of migrants picked up in the United States for immigration violations or criminal offenses, this is the way their American experience ends: a free flight home. Full Story
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