Before she was deported to Mexico last December, Olga Lidia had always been fairly active on Instagram. The 33-year-old mother of three never had a large following, just a small circle of friends in Las Vegas where she lived, to whom she’d broadcast details of her day-to-day. “I used to love showing my life, where I would go to have dinner, what my kids would wear,” she says. But after five months in ICE detention, a flight to the border in Tijuana, and another flight to Oaxaca to move into the abandoned childhood home she hadn’t visited since she left the country at 5 years old, the last thing she felt like doing was posting. She didn’t know how to talk about the brutal experience with friends, only some of whom knew she was undocumented. “It was embarrassing, if I’m honest, for me to hop

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