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U.S. Deportation Sent Asylum Seeker Back Into China’s Grip

A Chinese man crossed dangerous jungles to enter the United States, in a failed bid for asylum. After being deported home in 2023, he faced a choice: stay or try to leave again?

© Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Tao was part of a record-breaking wave of undocumented Chinese migrants who had made harrowing journeys through the jungles of Central America to the United States.
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