"Laudel Camacho Ricardo had been sleeping on the streets of Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, for three days. That's when he decided to sell his gold chain and a watch for $20 (just over 350 Mexican pesos). He would never have pawned his possessions for such a low price, if not for the hunger that gripped his stomach. These have been very hard days. Sometimes, I've felt like I would have preferred to die, he confesses."
"Within a week, he was suddenly a deportee in the Mexican state of Chiapas, without money, a phone, or identification documents. This was how the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers left him on the other side of the border. Laudel is 55-years-old, with graying hair. In the middle of his chest, he has a tattoo of the Statue of Liberty a silhouette made with the unmistakable blue-green ink that's used in prisons."
A 55-year-old Cuban immigrant and former Texas warehouse worker was deported to Tapachula, Mexico, after a brief period in U.S. ICE custody. He was left without his passport, money, phone, or identification and spent days sleeping on the streets. Severe hunger forced him to sell a gold chain and a watch for $20. He bears a Statue of Liberty tattoo from decades of political imprisonment in Cuba, where he spent 22 years for activism and independent journalism. The deportation left him destitute and traumatized in an unfamiliar country.
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