A family came to Chicago seeking asylum. He was deported. Now she wants to leave.
WBEZ News · WBEZ Chicago
July 22, 20257m 56s
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Show Notes
We’ve been following a couple seeking asylum in the US, until the husband was arrested and later deported under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
He spent nearly three months in detention.
Alone and with three young kids …his wife is out of work and sometimes they don’t have enough to eat. She fears getting arrested herself.
Things are so bad, she is ready to self deport to Venezuela. She enrolled in Trump’s self deportation program and is scheduled to leave by the end of the month.
WBEZ’s Adriana Cardona Maguigad brings us her story.
HOST: LARA