Forced Out: When Leaving the Country Means Leaving Your Kids [KQED.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/23/174:00 AM

Maria Mendoza-Sanchez, a Highland Hospital nurse in Oakland, and her husband this week ended their fight to remain in the U.S. after federal immigration authorities denied a last-ditch plea to stay.

Maria, her husband Eusebio Sanchez, and their 12-year-old son, Jesus, boarded a flight at San Francisco International Airport for Mexico City less than an hour before a federal deportation order expired late Wednesday for the couple — leaving behind their three daughters, two of them adults and one a teenager.

[For more of this story, written by Alyssa J. Perry and Deborah Svoboda, go to https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017...s-leaving-your-kids/]

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