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For 14 years, Jessika Cifuentes built a stable life in the United States. She ran her own business, forged strong community ties, and even became a U.S. citizen. But the increasingly hostile climate toward immigrants — fueled by harsher policies and deepening economic hardship — led her to make an unthinkable decision: return to Guatemala.
Cifuentes, a 51-year-old professional, packed her bags, left her home in Utah and relocated with her two daughters to Antigua, a city ringed by volcanoes in southern Guatemala, where she has only a few friends. There, she hopes to launch a food business with her eldest daughter.
After months of anxiety over shifting immigration policies under the Trump administration, a period of unemployment following layoffs at her company and a lack of support to sustain her food business, she made the difficult choice to go back home last April.
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