When he finally returned there early last year after being deported from the United States, he found the place transformed. Concha said he was abducted and tortured by cartel members in 2014 after he was deported to Mexico. But President Trump’s hard-line deportation campaign means fewer migrants who were returned to Mexico are attempting to cross back into the the U.S., experts said. But Concha said that some don’t receive the money and that migrants need much more help. This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom that covers stories from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border.
