Separated

Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid

Ranked #95 in Mexico History

On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return--arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children... The kids terrified,... more

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