How a Guatemalan girl ended up alone under guard in a hotel, waiting to be deported

WASHINGTON – The 16-year-old girl sat alone in the hotel room, under guard, unable to leave, unable to call anyone. She didn’t know where she was, or even what state she was in; all she knew was that she was going to be deported in a few hours to Guatemala, the country she’d fled. Unknown to her, as she sat Friday in a hotel in Alexandria, La., lawyers across the country and siblings in the …