";s:4:"text";s:4403:" What is so hard about returning to the US? Saren Idaho tells BBC he has no connection to Sierra Leone and had never been to the country until he was deported there from the US six months ago. "We have been living here with no food, no medical care, nothing," Latoya said.The Perseverance rover mission is Nasa's most ambitious hunt for life on Mars since the 1970s.They ended up on that flight after staff at Sierra Leone's embassy in Washington DC were put under pressure by US officials, according to Isha Sillah, director for the Americas and the Pacific at the foreign ministry here. He is 39-years-old. After spending most of his life living in the U.S., 41-year-old Jimmy Aldaoud was deported earlier this year to Iraq—a country in which he never lived. "The Dominican embassy has denied that Idaho is their national while the Bahamian embassy says more documents are needed to enable them make a determination - hence it's inconclusive," Ms Sillah said.He also paid for a food and clothing allowance.Before that, they were each getting $2.50 (£2) to cover daily costs, which they said barely paid for breakfast and bottled water.In an email to the BBC, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described Latoya as a "criminal alien who has been convicted of multiple identity theft-related criminal offenses".The Sierra Leonean embassy in Washington confirmed his citizenship, the DHS said.The foreign ministry has contacted the two Caribbean countries' embassies in Washington to certify that the two men were born there.These are external links and will open in a new window"The Sierra Leone government are like puppets to the Americans," Latoya, who said he was originally from the Bahamas, told the BBC. Saren Idaho said he has no connection to Sierra Leone and had never been to the country until he was deported there from the US six months ago.