Last summer, a woman working as a teachers aide at a public school in Milwaukee was forced to self-deport to her native country of El Salvador.
Yessenia Ruano and her husband Miguel Guerra chose uncertain safety over the constant fear of detainment, after a decade-old deportation order for Yessenia rose to the surface. Immigration officials did not honor her pending application for a visa reserved for trafficking victims.
Now, the couple and their 10-year-old twin daughters are trying to create a new life in a country that feels foreign to all four of them…