By the third hour in chains, Adan Caceres’ head was pounding and his lips were cracking from thirst.

Shackled at the wrists, ankles and waist, the Orange County wedding photographer sat pinned in his seat on a government plane, listening as the guards mocked the men around him as “criminals.” When one man begged to use the bathroom, he was refused, he said. So the stranger slid his shackled hands down, unzipped his pants and urinated into the same plastic water bottle he’d been given to drink from.

“I avoided drinking water because I didn’t want to have to go,” the 26-year-old said. “But then my head started hurting. We were dehydrated, the AC was off, people were fainting. It felt like we were dying in there.”

A week earlier, on Oct. 18, Caceres had been headed to Texas to photograph a

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