Venezuelans deported from U.S. hours before earthquakes hit are missing, some confirmed dead, families say

A young man who was killed had planned a reunion with his mother, and a man who’s missing had just called a relative minutes earlier.

Some families in Venezuela are mourning and others are desperately trying to find loved ones who had been deported from the U.S. and arrived hours before the earthquakes struck last week.

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The deportees were being processed at the Hotel Santuario La Llanada in the coastal state of La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit areas. Families have confirmed some deportees have died while others are unaccounted for.

Enit Hernández told NBC News her husband, José Rafael Rossi Ydrogo, is one of the missing deportees.