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. 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.



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