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The Returned Exile
When I was 12, I escaped the horrors of war in my country, Nicaragua, by illegally emigrating to the United States. I was not alone. Between 1981 and 1990 more than 1 million Central Americans sought political refuge in the United States from the civil wars and violence that plagued Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. … Read more