{"id":592,"date":"2026-06-15T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:07:42","slug":"ice-took-mom-and-dad-now-the-perez-kids-are-home-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"ICE Took Mom and Dad. Now the Perez Kids Are Home Alone."},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div><ul><li><span>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/li><li><i><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><\/i><span>Share on Bluesky<\/span><\/li><li><span>Email<\/span><\/li><li><span>Comments<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>As her older<\/span> siblings prepare breakfast, 13-year-old Cynthia Perez waits at the kitchen table, not very hungry. \u201cI\u2019m nervous,\u201d she tells her mom\u2019s friend Mariana Blanco, who gently brushes the girl\u2019s long brown hair.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=590\">The UFC\u2019s Despicable Night at the White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you are, love,\u201d Blanco says. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a March morning in Palm Beach County, Florida, and a big day for the four Perez children: They are missing school and work to testify via video in their mom\u2019s final immigration hearing, where a judge will decide whether she\u2019s coming home or getting deported to Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>Both their parents have been detained since last fall\u2014their dad at Alligator Alcatraz and then a detention center in Georgia, their mom at a federal facility in Arizona. The kids, all US citizens, have been on their own for months, leaning on Blanco and each other. Fifteen-year-old Romeo Jr. is the stoic one, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Jessica, 18, the bubbly and creative one, is considering military service after high school. Eliza, 21, is the practical one. After her parents were detained, she dropped out of college, where she\u2019d planned to study computer science, to take over the family landscaping business and pay the rent.<\/p>\n<p>I ask Cynthia about her own personality, and she flashes a grin. The \u201cannoying\u201d one, she tells me. Always joking and teasing her siblings. \u201cI mean, I <em>am<\/em> the youngest, so I like to play, but now I\u2019m just\u2026I just don\u2019t want to do nothing,\u201d she adds quietly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe used to be a lot more talkative,\u201d Eliza tells me. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re all quiet now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia looks uninterestedly at her waffles and strawberries. They\u2019re in the kitchen of the Guatemalan-Maya Center, a nonprofit for immigrants that Blanco helps lead, and soon they\u2019ll be talking with the judge and an attorney from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Blanco quizzes her: \u201cWhat are you gonna say if they ask you: \u2018If your mom gets deported, what are you gonna do?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure yet,\u201d Cynthia says, taking a bite of waffle. \u201cBecause I\u2019m not ready for a new life in a whole different country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her siblings weigh the question, too\u2014whether they\u2019d choose to stay or go, to finish school here or be with their parents abroad. They lean toward different answers, which is scary to consider. Even this smaller family unit might not last much longer. But at least one good thing will come of this day, Blanco tells them: The unbearable uncertainty will be over. One way or the other, their mom will get out of detention.<\/p>\n<p>They worry about what their parents are experiencing. \u201cDad says Alcatraz was really cold,\u201d Eliza recalls. \u201cThey don\u2019t give you sweaters, blankets. They give you one thin blanket, like a napkin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he said they were crowded in one room,\u201d adds Jessica.<\/p>\n<p>The talk turns to their mom\u2019s Arizona accommodations. \u201cWhether it\u2019s here with us or over there in Guatemala,\u201d Eliza tells her siblings, \u201cat least she won\u2019t be in that horrible place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><span>P<\/span><span>erezes live<\/span> in Lake Worth Beach, a coastal city about 7 miles from Mar-a-Lago and an hour from Miami. Parents Romeo Sr. and Olga arrived in the United States more than 25 years ago, having immigrated separately as teenagers\u2014her hometown was devastated during the Guatemalan civil war, when the US-backed military massacred the indigenous Maya, including her uncle. She met Romeo, who is also Guatemalan, when she was about 17. He started a landscaping business; she cleaned homes and worked as a Mayan language translator. They raised their four kids in a small lilac-colored house with coconut palms in the front yard.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good life, though the children often worried about their parents\u2019 undocumented status. Several years ago, each family member downloaded an app that let them track one another\u2019s whereabouts. That\u2019s how they knew Romeo Sr. had been detained last September on his way to work\u2014his location icon moved farther than expected, first toward Miami and then, terrifyingly, toward the Everglades. \u201cWe didn\u2019t really have a plan,\u201d Jessica, the second oldest, tells me, \u201cbut we had one thing: We had to keep my dad\u2019s landscaping company going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, before sunrise one day during Thanksgiving break, Olga rustled Cynthia awake. She was heading out with Eliza and Romeo Jr. to mow some lawns.<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia, still tired, asked to stay home. Before she knew it, someone else was nudging her back to consciousness. \u201cCome on, you gotta go,\u201d Jessica told her. Cynthia, disoriented, followed her sister outside, where Blanco was waiting. They drove to the nearby house of their aunt, who is sick with cancer. (She asked that her name not be printed.) The girls wondered why they were visiting at such an early hour. When they arrived, Eliza and Romeo Jr. were \u00adalready there, crying.<\/p>\n<p>Eliza broke the news: The Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the family truck. Olga was now in federal custody, too. \u00adJessica fell to the floor, stricken by a panic attack\u2014her mom usually calmed her during such episodes. Blanco scooped \u00adCynthia into her arms. \u201cWhy is this happening to us?\u201d the girl sobbed.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Cynthia wanted to go home. But Eliza, as the eldest, felt the siblings shouldn\u2019t stay home alone\u2014certainly not that night. They stopped by the house just long enough to fetch clothes, toothbrushes, and other essentials. Cynthia grabbed Pusheen, a cat plushie her dad had given her. \u201cI sprayed my mom\u2019s perfume on it,\u201d she tells me. Romeo Jr., Jessica, and Eliza left the bunkroom they all shared, decorated with Eliza\u2019s manga and K-pop collections, and headed back to their aunt\u2019s. They didn\u2019t know for how long.<\/p>\n<p><span>A staggering number<\/span>of parents have been swept up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. From late January 2025 through early April 2026, more than 146,000 US citizen children had moms or dads detained, the Brookings Institution estimates. That\u2019s about 330 a day. (Based solely on DHS records, the total would be closer to 60,000, according to Brookings researcher Tara Watson, who notes that the agency has done a poor job tracking the data.)<\/p>\n<p>ICE is supposed to ensure that minors aren\u2019t left alone after an arrest. But while reporting this story, I heard about young teens fending for themselves; about a dad who begged in vain for immigration officers to let him call his babysitter; about parents stepping off deportation flights in tears because they didn\u2019t know whether their kids were safe. These are not isolated incidents\u2014similar stories have been documented around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Olga and Romeo, at least, had made a plan. Years earlier, they\u2019d signed legal paperwork that would allow someone else to care for their children if need be, and make decisions about schooling, medical care, and travel. In addition to Olga\u2019s sister, they designated Blanco, a dear friend and the children\u2019s godmother.<\/p>\n<p>Immigrant parents far and wide are doing the same. In Los Angeles, I spoke with an attorney who led \u201cfamily preparedness\u201d meetings during the massive ICE operation there last year\u2014one such event, hosted by a public school district, drew almost 800 people. At a smaller gathering I attended in San Francisco, organizers encouraged parents to keep their kids\u2019 schools in the loop as to which adults might step in as temporary guardians and cautioned them to maintain good records of key information like their children\u2019s medications and allergies. Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that makes it easier for immigrant parents to designate alternate caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>In the Chicago area, I spoke with a substitute teacher who\u2019d immediately said yes when an undocumented friend asked her to sign paperwork for her sons. Over the past two decades, Florida activist Nora \u00adSandigo, a US citizen from Nicaragua, has become a temporary guardian to hundreds of children through a nonprofit she runs for this purpose. \u201cSometimes children are scared and confused, and it\u2019s a daily job to explain what is happening, why their parents had to leave, that they are safe and cared for,\u201d she says. A few kids have lived with her, but most stay with their relatives; it\u2019s her responsibility to keep them in school, schedule their doctors\u2019 appointments, and help them travel abroad to visit their parents\u2014or join them if desired.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco, a naturalized citizen with a toddler of her own, is 33 years old. She was born in Mexico City and came to South Florida when she was 7. After college she did social work in the \u00adfavelas of Brazil, and then moved to Chicago, where she landed a job with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement. She eventually made her way back to South Florida. That\u2019s where she met Olga Perez, who translated for the Guatemalan-Maya Center.<\/p>\n<p>Olga\u2019s kids struggled to cope in the days after her arrest. Romeo Jr. became quieter, not wanting to talk with friends about the family crisis. Jessica couldn\u2019t sleep, and when their mom was \u00adtransferred from Florida to Arizona, she had another panic episode that turned into an asthma attack; she fainted and had to go to the hospital. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to lose a parent,\u201d she tells me.<\/p>\n<p>The kids stayed with their aunt off and on for a while, but they missed their own beds and soon moved back home. Blanco continued to invite them over to her place regularly to spend the night or just to hang out and play with her baby, who helped take their mind off things. She brought them to the movies and the beach, cooked them dinner, and got them ice cream. She\u2019s \u201ca great hugger,\u201d the girls tell me. She\u2019s \u201calways been there for us,\u201d Jessica adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey travel as a family unit,\u201d Blanco says of the kids. \u201cThey don\u2019t do anything without the siblings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there were missed milestones: Romeo Jr. was devastated that his mom and dad couldn\u2019t teach him to drive after he got his permit. \u201cI had to tell them over the phone\u201d about the permit, he recalls, \u201cwhich is hard: It\u2019s a big accomplishment for me, but they\u2019re not there to support me.\u201d They also weren\u2019t around to see \u00adJessica off to the JROTC ball or to take her to tour colleges with marine biology \u00adprograms, which she wants to pursue if she doesn\u2019t enlist. Eliza especially missed her parents at her \u201cgolden\u201d 21st birthday\u2014February 21. She had wanted a big celebration because she\u2019d never gotten a <em>quincea\u00f1era<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Their dad would try to call every morning and remind them to eat breakfast, but \u201cit\u2019s not the same as in person,\u201d Romeo Jr. told me. For Eliza\u2019s birthday, he managed a video call, which felt special, and Olga called in from Arizona, where she\u2019d convened a group of detained women to sing \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d over the phone.<\/p>\n<p><span>Before 1996,<\/span> undocumented parents with American children could avoid deportation if they had lived in the country at least seven years and hadn\u2019t committed any crimes. Then, amid a surge of immigration, some lawmakers railed about \u201canchor babies\u201d giving \u201camnesty\u201d to their \u201cillegal\u201d parents and Congress passed tougher \u00adrequirements. President Bill Clinton signed the changes into law and ICE began deporting more moms and dads, leaving behind \u201cimmigration orphans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In subsequent years, the Bush and Obama administrations, too, separated citizen children from immigrant parents. There were millions of mixed-status families, and between 2010 and 2012 the federal government issued more than 200,000 removal orders for parents with US-born children. Research showed, not surprisingly, that these deportations harmed kids\u2019 health and drove thousands into foster care, so Obama\u2019s DHS moved to create some guardrails.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Tom Homan, then a top ICE \u00adofficial, introduced the Parental Interests Directive, a set of guidelines that would help agents enforce the law without hampering parents\u2019 rights. The next year, on primetime television, Obama announced Deferred Action for Parents of Americans\u2014a sort of sister policy to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the one that temporarily protected people from deportation if they were brought to the United States as children. DAPA would similarly shield parents from deportation if they had citizen kids. \u201cUnless for significant public safety or national security concerns, we wanted to ensure that we\u2019re never separating families,\u201d John Sandweg, then the acting ICE director, told me. \u201cWe were trying to focus on people with a criminal history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within days, Texas and 25 other states with Republican governors sued to stop the program, arguing that it violated the Constitution and federal statutes. The case made it to the Supreme Court, which split 4\u20134. (This was soon after Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s death, when Republicans refused to confirm Obama\u2019s pick for a replacement.) DAPA never went into effect, in any case, and the Trump administration officially rescinded it in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Homan became acting director of ICE that year. Though he\u2019d introduced the Parental Interests Directive under Obama, he\u2019d long wanted to separate families at the border, a punishment he thought would deter others from coming. Trump adviser Stephen Miller embraced the idea; the resulting \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy instructed Border Patrol officers to rip kids from their parents\u2019 arms if necessary. It would take years for families to be reunited\u2014some never were. \u201cIt was an atrocity,\u201d says Kelly Albinak Kribs, an \u00adattorney at the Young Center for Immigrant Children\u2019s Rights. \u201cParents had no idea where their kids were sent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outrage over the policy was widespread, and a federal court struck it down in 2018. But family separations didn\u2019t end, even under President Joe Biden. The focus and the targets just shifted. More often than not, the Trump administration is now going after families who have lived in the nation\u2019s interior for years, nearly half of whom have kids who are American born and raised. ICE has detained parents of citizen children at twice the rate it did under Biden, and is deporting \u00admothers at four times the rate, according to a <em>ProPublica<\/em> analysis. The vast majority of the parents being removed have no serious criminal record. \u201cThe policy is: Detain everybody,\u201d says Sandweg, the Obama-era ICE director.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially, the Trump administration has created its own version of the \u00adParental Interests Directive. It\u2019s called the Detained Parents Directive, and as the name change implies, it scraps the Biden-era language about incarcerating parents only in \u201climited circumstances\u201d and treating them humanely.<\/p>\n<p>Some rules remain, but ICE seems to be ignoring them. For instance, parents are meant to be detained close to where their children live, but moms like Olga Perez are regularly transferred across the country\u2014 found a twelvefold increase in transfers of noncriminal Latino detainees far from home. It\u2019s all in line with the administration\u2019s eagerness for immigrants to self-deport. \u201cShuffle flights\u201d\u2014moving a person from one facility to the next in quick succession\u2014are also common and make it harder for detainees to meet with attorneys or make arrangements for their families. \u201cImagine that you were transferred to four or five different facilities\u201d in as many days, says Zain Lakhani of the Women\u2019s Refugee Commission. \u201cEven if you manage to say, \u2018I have children,\u2019 you\u2019re only there for 12 hours before you\u2019re transferred to another facility, and you have to try to find someone who can listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result: kids left in precarious circumstances. The Guatemalan-Maya Center recently learned of a 13-year-old Florida boy whose parents are in federal custody\u2014he\u2019d been living alone for months. In another case, a middle-school girl moved in with her neighbors after her mom was arrested. Then, after the neighbors\u2019 dad was detained, the girl went to stay with her stepbrother, who had adult male roommates and was gone a week at a time for work. \u201cThis kid was by herself,\u201d Blanco says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents are supposed to have an opportunity to set up an alternate caregiver,\u201d says Rachel Prandini, an attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in California. But ICE officers \u201care not following their own policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s such utter lawlessness,\u201d adds Heather Perez Arroyo, an immigration attorney in Massachusetts who defends detained parents.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another big change under Trump: Previously, deported parents could decide whether they wanted their kids to join them abroad, and ICE was supposed to facilitate that choice. Now, ICE says it will do so only if \u201coperationally feasible.\u201d Last fall, when observers from the Women\u2019s Refugee Commission and another nonprofit, Physicians for Human Rights, visited Honduras, they  who were inconsolable because they didn\u2019t know where their kids were. \u201cThe majority were never asked if they had children at the time they were arrested,\u201d WRC\u2019s Lakhani says. \u201cEven when parents were begging, \u2018My children are home alone,\u2019 they were not given opportunities to make arrangements.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=587\">Trump Wants Reporters to Know He\u2019s Very Mad at Netanyahu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reuniting families post-deportation can be a logistical nightmare. American kids can\u2019t travel abroad without a passport, and getting one requires both parents\u2019 signatures. \u201cIf your child is in the care of your undocumented sister, she can\u2019t get your child a passport,\u201d Lakhani says. And \u201cshe can\u2019t get on a plane and fly your child to Honduras\u2014she doesn\u2019t have a [US] passport\u201d either.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government doesn\u2019t bother to track the fates of children whose parents were removed by ICE. Four of the deported women the nonprofit groups interviewed in \u00adHonduras were mothers of newborns. All of them had their infants taken away.<\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><span>s<\/span><span>un hasn\u2019t <\/span>yet risen when I arrive at the Perez family\u2019s home on a spring morning. A rooster crows. It\u2019s a school day and the children are inside getting ready. By now, Romeo Sr. and Olga have been detained for a few months, and although the kids spend the occasional night with their aunt or Blanco, they prefer to be back at home, surrounded by their things and relying on each other.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7:30 a.m., Romeo Jr. comes out to start their black pickup truck, which has a trailer for the landscaping equipment. Then he climbs into the back seat, leaving the front open for Eliza, who will drive him and Jessica to Lake Worth High. (A friend comes for Cynthia later.) As Eliza navigates down A Street toward the school, she multitasks, handing Jessica a pink notebook and asking her to put the address for the day\u2019s first landscaping job into the phone\u2019s GPS.<\/p>\n<p>Eliza turns to me and explains that this is her dad\u2019s truck. There are AC\/DC and Metallica stickers on the ceiling, Nirvana on the dash. \u201cHe loved rock,\u201d she says. I\u2019m struck by her use of the past tense. She asks Romeo Jr. about one of his after-school clubs and then drops off her siblings before heading out to pick up a female landscaping worker, who hops in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>Eliza\u2019s life was turned upside down by her parents\u2019 arrests. She\u2019d been doing her prerequisites at Palm Beach State College and hoping to work in tech, but had to drop out to save the business. She taught herself to drive the big truck and trailer and is proud of what she\u2019s accomplished. \u201cNot everyone can do this\u2014step up and do landscaping work in the hot sun, learn how to run these machines. It\u2019s not very common for girls, especially my age,\u201d she tells me. \u201cI really am trying for my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The job is in another city, and traffic is slow. We pass a billboard with Trump\u2019s face on it\u2014Eliza grouses about the road closures whenever he comes to Mar-a-Lago. She coughs; she\u2019s been sick but didn\u2019t want to miss a day of work, especially when her worker already made childcare arrangements. As we drive, the women chat about Olga\u2019s case. DHS is arguing that the Perez kids don\u2019t need their mother, Eliza explains, and that they\u2019re getting by just fine without her. The agency\u2019s attorney tried to stop Eliza from testifying, asserting that because she\u2019s 21, an adult, she isn\u2019t affected by the separation. \u201cHomeland Security was saying that my mom is not important,\u201d she says, and \u201cwe can manage by ourselves. No, we can\u2019t! I feel like quitting. I don\u2019t feel like this is my gig, my dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eliza sighs. \u201cI would rather work in an office or do something else, something for myself,\u201d she says as the truck creeps forward. The one bright spot is how much closer she\u2019s grown to her siblings. Each has adopted a role: \u201cRomeo is like my secretary\u2014he helps me deposit checks, messages the customers. He still doesn\u2019t know how to pay the bills, but he helps me keep money in the accounts.\u201d \u00adJessica takes care of Cynthia, who is still young enough that she shared a bedroom with her parents before they were detained. \u201cI never slept alone. Like, I\u2019m scared of the dark,\u201d she told me. Now Cynthia has the top bunk in the bunkroom, and Romeo Jr. has moved into their parents\u2019 room.<\/p>\n<p>The younger siblings recognize \u00adEliza\u2019s sacrifices. \u201cShe\u2019s really trying to work hard so we can buy the stuff we want, like clothes, school supplies, food,\u201d says Jessica. She likens her sister to \u201ca second mother\u201d who \u201cwants us to be happy, even though she isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has a lot of pressure on top of her,\u201d Olga told me over the phone from her detention facility.<\/p>\n<p>When Eliza was younger, her dad would sometimes bring her along to help with his weekend work, but she mostly stayed in the truck. \u201cHe always was like, \u2018You guys are gonna go to school or find a better job,\u2019\u201d Eliza recalls.<\/p>\n<p>So much for that. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten a bit of muscles,\u201d she says as we park near the first job site, a home in a quiet neighborhood with big yards with sprinklers. She pulls on her Converses, pops a cough drop, unloads a mower, and gets to work.<\/p>\n<p><span>On the morning<\/span> of Olga\u2019s hearing, we\u2019re back in the Guatemalan-Maya Center\u2019s kitchen. Cynthia\u2019s hair is brushed and braided, but she hasn\u2019t eaten much. Today will be her first time testifying before a judge, though not the first time they\u2019ve gathered for a hearing. Her mom\u2019s case started weeks ago, and they\u2019ve taken several days off school to prepare. Jessica testified last week, as did Eliza, who convinced the judge she deserved to speak despite being 21. Romeo Jr., in dress pants with a thick watch, is preparing to give his own statement. \u201cI want to be a doctor; how am I gonna be a doctor in Guatemala?\u201d one of Blanco\u2019s colleagues coaches him.<\/p>\n<p>Father Frank O\u2019Loughlin, an elderly priest who founded the center decades ago, arrives with teacher Maria de la Guardia. She takes Cynthia\u2019s face tenderly in her hands. \u201cNothing you say or do will doom your mom,\u201d she tells the girl quietly. \u201cIf MAGA wins today, MAGA wins. Hopefully she\u2019s released. But Cynthia, if she\u2019s not, nothing you said or did will make the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia tries not to cry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your mom gets deported, we will go visit her,\u201d de la Guardia says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never thought of doing this ever in my life,\u201d Cynthia tells me. \u201cBut I guess today\u2019s the date. I\u2019m really nervous and scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soon, Blanco calls on Cynthia to pray. She sits on a couch next to Jessica and Romeo Jr., who holds his head in his hands. They close their eyes and repeat a prayer after Father Frank. \u201cI want to say thank you to all of you guys,\u201d Eliza says afterward, standing with the priest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope my mom does get out,\u201d Jessica says. They\u2019ve all heard what things are like at her facility: the awful food and filthy water, the neglectful medical care. Olga has diabetes, and at one point she had to be hospitalized\u2014they handcuffed her to her bed. (\u201cEverybody knows you\u2019re a criminal,\u201d she recalled a guard saying.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if she doesn\u2019t, you know, wherever she is, I hope she\u2019s safe,\u201d Jessica continues, her voice shaky with emotion. \u201cAnd I just want to thank all of you guys for praying for my dad, too. If I can\u2019t have one parent, I hope to have the other.\u201d She rubs a red rosary in her hands, wipes away a tear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s hope you have both, baby,\u201d Blanco says.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:30 a.m., when the hearing is due to start, the children go into a room by themselves with a laptop that will let them talk with the judge. They sit in a row. Cynthia squeezes a green stress toy, and after a few minutes, they pray the rosary aloud. Then they sign the cross and lean forward to rest their elbows on the table and wait.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes pass. Then Blanco comes in with bad news. The hearing has been postponed another week. The children drop their heads. It\u2019s been postponed four times already. One time, the kids sat in front of the computer for hours before the judge notified them. \u201cAnother day of work wasted,\u201d Eliza says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother day of school wasted,\u201d Romeo Jr. adds. Jessica begins to cry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so disrespectful,\u201d Blanco tells me. \u201cThe anxiety leading up to one of the biggest days of your life\u2014and having to do that over and over again, it\u2019s torture. The lack of regard for people in the system is shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d transported Olga for the hearing, and then turned right around and brought her back to detention. \u201cIt almost seems,\u201d Blanco says, \u201clike they are trying to wear you out, so you say, \u2018Screw this, I\u2019m done with it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eliza blames herself. She was the one driving when her mom was arrested. The state trooper got behind them, ran their plate, and linked it to her dad, who\u2019d already been detained. \u201cIf I would have never gone out that day to work, or if I would have taken a different route\u2026\u201d she laments.<\/p>\n<p>The kids gather again in Blanco\u2019s office. The phone rings\u2014it\u2019s Olga. She\u2019s crying. <em>I can\u2019t do this anymore<\/em>, she says in Spanish. Cynthia and Eliza cry, too. Blanco kneels on the floor next to them, her hands on their knees. Romeo Jr. squeezes the green stress toy. Jessica tries to rally the troops. \u201cOne more week, I promise you, Mami!\u201d she says. She turns to Romeo Jr. \u201cWe\u2019re strong,\u201d she adds. They fist-bump.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, the kids will take off from school and work again. They will wait in front of the computer, and the hearing will be postponed\u2014again\u2014a bad dream that won\u2019t end. The siblings know that after everything they\u2019ve been through, despite how close they\u2019ve become, when this nightmare is finally over they may have to say goodbye to each other, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be with my mom,\u201d Cynthia tells me, \u201cbut I\u2019m not sure I would move over there. I want to be a veterinarian, and I think the education is not like that over there\u2014like, my grandmas live in the mountains. It\u2019s gonna be so different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica, too, is unsure. Romeo Jr. says he wants to stay in the United States for med school so he can become a surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>Eliza, ever the practical one, is thinking she\u2019ll move to Guatemala. \u201cI love my siblings a lot, but I love my mom a lot more,\u201d she\u2019d said during our drive. \u201cI told them, \u2018You guys need to have a plan; I won\u2019t be here to take care of you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine being separated, and with Olga on the phone they try not to. 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