Melissa Tran shared a message with her community a week after the Department of Homeland Security deported the Hagerstown, Maryland mother of four to Vietnam, a country she left decades ago as a child.

Tran was in the United States legally, but the Trump administration deported her over a theft conviction decades ago in Virginia.

Her troubles started earlier this year during a routine check-in with immigration officials in Baltimore.

Melissa Tran's letter

Tran wrote in her letter, posted to the Bring Melissa Home Facebook page, about the pain of the deportation.

"In my most sorrow, desperate, loneliest moments, knowing that my departure from the U.S. is imminent, I cried and asked God for his guidance," Tran wrote.

Tran wrote that she is now struggling to adjust to life in Vietnam wi

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