Venezuelan family feels full force of Trump's crackdown

At her zinc-roofed home in a poor Maracaibo neighborhood, 46-year-old Mercedes blinks back tears as she thinks about her family split asunder by US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. "I wish I could go to sleep, wake up, and this never happened," she says, as rain drums down and lightning flashes overhead. In their homeland, her boys were held back by decades of political and economic tumult that have already prompted an estimated eight million Venezuelans to emigrate. But in leaving...