LOBATERA, Venezuela -- Carlos Uzcátegui tightly hugged his sobbing wife and stepdaughter on Wednesday as the morning fog in western Venezuela lifted. The family's first embrace in more than a year finally convinced him that his nightmare inside a prison in El Salvador was over. Uzcátegui was among the migrants being reunited with loved ones after four months in prison in El Salvador , where the U.S. government transferred them in one of its boldest moves to crack down on immigration. “Every day, we asked God for the blessing of freeing us from there so that we could be here with family, with my loved ones,” Uzcátegui, 33, said. “Every day, I woke up looking at the bars, wishing I wasn’t there." "They beat us, they kicked us. I even have quite a few bruises on my stomach,” he added before l

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