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‘I will have to start from scratch’ — a Latter-day Saint convert prepares to self-deport

“The things that I have lived throughout my life could be a reason to push me away from God, from the church, from faith,” she says. “But they haven’t.”

(Tamarra Kemsley | The Salt Lake Tribune) Evelyn Caceres poses for a photograph with her dog, Odie, in Los Angeles. The Latter-day Saint came seeking asylum with her two children in 2018. This month, she returns to San Salvador alone and against her wishes.