The promise of $1,000 in exchange for becoming one of Trumpโs deportees: โI wanted to get out of detention, not out of the USโ
2 May 2026 at 04:00
When Luis Andrรฉs Monterroso Lรณpez, 29, set foot on Guatemalan soil on December 19, 2025 โ his first time back in three years โ he was furious. Dressed in a gray jumpsuit and darkโblue slippers, the standard uniform for migrants held in U.S. detention, he spoke to his mother on the phone while sitting outside the Guatemalan Air Force base where deportation flights land. โThey donโt treat animals like this. I came back with my hands and feet shackled,โ he told her, outraged.

ยฉ Simona Carnino