A woman’s choice to self-deport from Sarasota pushes her family to consider the same

On a July afternoon, at her home in Sarasota, Lourdes Martinez runs her hands over the clothes hanging in her daughter’s closet.

She’s packing a suitcase to send to Mexico, where her daughter, Maria, will be in a week after choosing to self-deport.

“It’s painful,” Lourdes said in Spanish, “to smell the perfume on her clothes.”…

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