How Guatemala plans to resettle planes loaded with US deportees

Carlos Navarro was recently eating takeout outside a restaurant in Virginia when immigration officials stopped him and said there was an order to remove him from the country.

He has never been in trouble with the law, said Mr. Navarro, 32, adding that he worked in poultry factories.

“Absolutely nothing.”

Last week, he was back in Guatemala for the first time in 11 years, calling his wife in the United States from a deportee reception center in the capital, Guatemala City.

Mr. Navarro’s experience could be a taste of the type of rapid deportations that will take place under President Donald J. Trump to communities across the United States, which are home to as many as 14 million illegal immigrants .

The administration, which has promised the largest deportations in American history, is expected to begin them as early as Tuesday. In his inaugural address Monday, Mr. Trump promised to “begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens to their places of origin.”