How to make a horrible thing even more horrible: the entire Trump administration encapsulated in one cruel policy.

They called it Project Homecoming. They told people they’d get a free flight out of the country, and $1,000 to land on their feet. For people like Pérez, whose husband had already been detained and deported, leaving her to try to raise two kids alone in Chicago, there was hardly any choice at all. But when she took the Trump Administration’s offer, Project Homecoming was revealed to be Project Nightmare.

After months of waiting, her plane tickets never arrived. Phone calls went unanswered. In a country with increasingly brutal crackdowns, especially in Chicago, Pérez feels unsafe everywhere she goes. She is just one of many thousands who have signed up for the program. Dozens of other people interviewed for this story experienced nearly identical failures.

Or perhaps the program was never meant to succeed.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)