Life on pause: The children left in limbo after their parents’ deportation to Mexico
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“One thing about me, I loved school.”
Lina remembers herself before her mother’s deportation as the girl who talked to everyone. She played basketball and piano, studied French, painted — and loved school.
Staff at work inside the Soy México office in Jalisco, where applicants’ documents are reviewed and registration cases are processed. (Tracy L. Barnett)
Today, at 17, Lina is a U.S. citizen living in Jalisco. She has not been in a classroom for five years.
“I don’t work. I don’t go to school.
Lina remembers herself before her mother’s deportation as the girl who talked to everyone. She played basketball and piano, studied French, painted — and loved school.
Staff at work inside the Soy México office in Jalisco, where applicants’ documents are reviewed and registration cases are processed. (Tracy L. Barnett)
Today, at 17, Lina is a U.S. citizen living in Jalisco. She has not been in a classroom for five years.
“I don’t work. I don’t go to school.
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