""I feel like I'm suffocating inside this shelter, trapped with no way out," Carlos' son said, describing the hopelessness and terror he felt after months in the facility."
""They tricked me," Carlos said in a phone call from an immigration detention center, expressing his feelings of betrayal after being detained while trying to reunite with his children."
Carlos, a Venezuelan man, believed he was close to reuniting with his children after they spent nearly a year in a federal shelter. His son expressed feelings of hopelessness and entrapment in the shelter. Carlos, who had temporary protected status, was contacted by immigration officials for a meeting regarding reunification. Upon arrival, he was coerced into signing documents he did not understand, leading to his detention in El Paso, Texas, where he felt betrayed and used by the system.
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