Mellona Takie can barely make it through a game of Uno these days, though on a recent afternoon she tries. Anything to keep her mind from going to a place so dark that she tried to take her own life in February, after the United States deported her, an East African, to Panama.

“Even if I see something good, in my eyes, it’s bad,” says the woman in her late 20s, who fled mandatory military service in Eritrea, under a totalitarian government, and planned to seek political asylum in the U.S.

A 23-year-old makeup artist with no known gang affiliation was among the hundreds of Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison without due process last week.

Lindsay Toczylowski, co-founder and president of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, painted a harrowing picture while recounting how her client was “disappeared” during an appearance on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Thursday.

Immigration attorneys say a gay Venezuelan makeup artist seeking asylum in the U.S. was wrongly identified as a gang member and deported to El Salvador—a case becoming a flashpoint in the debate over the Trump administration’s deportation of hundreds of migrants to a notoriously inhumane El Salvador megaprison.

A makeup artist seeking asylum in the US after fleeing Venezuela claims he was wrongly identified as a gang member and sent to a hellhole prison in El Salvador.

Andrys Cedeno-Gil, 31, crossed the border into California from Tijuana last year to escape persecution for his homosexuality, his lawyers said.

He waited months in detention for an immigration court hearing on March 13, but instead was put one of three planes with 237 other migrants and deported.

President Donald Trump is preparing to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border, where they will support Border Patrol agents under new orders to shut off access to asylum, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefing document obtained by The Washington Post.

A 6-year-old girl riding in a car with Honduran illegal immigrant Zelvin Gomez succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday after she was involved in a car crash. Gomez was arrested and found to have a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit. He is now facing charges of manslaughter.

The Biden administration on Friday announced new temporary protected status for Haitians who arrived in the U.S. on or before June 3, 2024, to shield even those who entered the country illegally from being deported back to Haiti, which remains in the grip of gang violence. 

Inflation could reaccelerate if former President Trump wins the White House and Republicans win control of Congress, according to a recent report by Moody’s Analytics.

Under the so-called Republican Sweep scenario, which the forecasters place at a 35 percent probability, consumer price inflation accelerates from 3 percent in 2024 to 3.6 percent in 2025, according to the three economists who authored the report. 

With little over four months to go before the presidential election, 16 Nobel prize-winning economists are cautioning voters on what they see as the inflationary pitfalls of another Trump administration.

Echoing President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, the group of Nobel laureates say that former President Donald Trump’s economic plans would rekindle inflation and inflict lasting harm on the global economy should he win on Nov. 5.