
‘He’s been removed’: Families of deported migrants on a desperate hunt for answers
CNN
Yurliana Andreina Chacin Gómez gripped her cellphone, her three-year old daughter clinging on, as the voice of a federal official boomed through the phone.
Yurliana Andreina Chacin Gómez gripped her cellphone, her three-year old daughter clinging on, as the voice of a federal official boomed through the phone. “He’s been removed,” the official confirmed, as Chacin Gómez – with CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez translating – asked about the whereabouts of her brother, a Venezuelan national who’s been in US custody. And then, the answer she had been desperate for. Her brother, Jhon Willian Chacin Gómez, had been sent to El Salvador. Overcome with grief, Chacin Gómez collapsed on the couch with her family. For four days, Chacin Gómez had been searching for her brother after spotting him in a handout video from the El Salvadoran government as among those sent to El Salvador from the United States, accused by the Trump administration of having ties to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. “He’s not a criminal,” she cried in Spanish.

Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











