Deportee a Stranger in His Homeland

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Mon, 04/07/2008 - 11:05pm

Omar Giron lived in the United States for so long that when he returned to El Salvador -- the country he left 20 years ago -- it was anything but a homecoming.

And perhaps nothing marks him more as an outsider than his daily battle against dust.

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