Olinda, 31, originally from the north of Guatemala, is visibly shaken upon being deported after four months in a Pennsylvania detention center, where she remembers being bound in chains.
"People are desperate," said Shawn VanDiver, the founder and president of AfghanEvac, a nonprofit that supports the safe relocation of Afghan allies. "They've followed all the rules. They've done everything the U.S. asked them to do, and at every corner, the Trump administration has been blocking them."
The deported group included individuals described as 'so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,' an assertion the Jamaican government strongly refutes.
"Some people spend two years, three years and they still get deported. You question yourself the whole time while you are there, is it worth it to spend two years here because at the end of the day, I still may get deported."