Stranded and alone in Mexico, deportees miss the country they call home.

The U.S. border with Mexico is seen in 

Nogales, Ariz., in January. 

(Photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

NOGALES, Mexico — Recent immigration raids and highly publicized deportations following President Trump’s executive orders on border security and immigration enforcement are putting a spotlight on a segment of society that’s long lived in the shadows.

But what happens to “the undocumented” once they’ve become “the deported”? Seventy miles south of Tucson and mere steps from the United States border in Nogales, Sonora, a loosely connected community of deportees struggles to survive as strangers in a country that is legally their own but feels nothing like home.

Once a popular destination for day trips or weekend getaways among families and college students from Tucson, Nogales saw traditional tourism dry up following a spate of violence by warring drug cartels in 2008 and 2009. These days, the city is mostly frequented by so-called medical tourists, older, often retired, U.S. citizens who pour across the border from Arizona daily in search of discounted dental services and prescription refills.

Caitlin Dickson.

Full story at Yahoo News.