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Crossing the desert in the early hours, she nearly stepped on a rattlesnake \u2013 \u201cyou could only hear them,\u201d she recalls \u2013 but kept moving ahead, only to be stopped by Border Patrol after two more days of walking. She spent 25 days in a detention center in Encino, Texas, and then was deported to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Like \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2015\/01\/08\/border-enforcement-policies-ensnare-parents-us-citizen-children\u0022\u003Esome 15 percent\u003C\/a\u003E of Border Patrol deportees, Rosalinda is a parent of US-born citizen children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u201cIf I try again, supposedly, I\u2019ll get three months,\u201d she told Human Rights Watch in Nuevo Laredo, referring to a warning given her by a Border Patrol officer. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any difference to me. I\u2019ve got to make it back to my kids,\u201d she said, wiping a tear from her cheek.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003E\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\u0022embed align-right embedded-entity embedded-entity-type-media embedded-entity-bundle-image embedded-entity-viewmode-embeddable embed--right\u0022\u003E\n \n\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n \n \n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\u0022figure figure--expand text-center\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022figure__media relative inline-block mx-auto\u0022\u003E\n \u003Ca href=\u0022\/modal\/32441\u0022 rel=\u0022modal:open\u0022 class=\u0022figure__link\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cimg srcset=\u0022\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/480w\/public\/multimedia_images_2017\/201706us_mexico_rosalinda.jpeg?itok=jTy0pxyU 480w, \/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/embed_xxl\/public\/multimedia_images_2017\/201706us_mexico_rosalinda.jpeg?itok=ouffydxd 850w\u0022 sizes=\u0022(max-width: 524px) 100px, 500px\u0022 data-responsive-image-style=\u0022embedded_images\u0022 src=\u0022\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/embed_xxl\/public\/multimedia_images_2017\/201706us_mexico_rosalinda.jpeg?itok=ouffydxd\u0022 width=\u0022850\u0022 height=\u00221133\u0022 alt=\u0022Rosalinda C. speaks with Human Rights Watch researchers at the Instituto Tamaulipeco in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022 typeof=\u0022foaf:Image\u0022 \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022figure__expand absolute block bottom-0 right-0 w-8 h-8 bg-white text-gray-700\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022sr-only\u0022\u003EClick to expand Image\u003C\/span\u003E\n \n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\u0022icon fill-current w-full inline-block\u0022\u003E\n \u003Csvg viewbox=\u00220 0 20 20\u0022 fill=\u0022currentColor\u0022 role=\u0022img\u0022 focusable=\u0022false\u0022 aria-hidden=\u0022true\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022\/themes\/custom\/hrw_design\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/spritemap.svg?cacheBuster=#sprite-expand\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n \u003C\/div\u003E\n \u003C\/a\u003E\n \u003C\/div\u003E\n \u003Cfigcaption class=\u0022figure__info text-left font-serif text-xs md:text-sm lg:text-base mx-auto text-gray-700 mt-1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022figure__caption\u0022\u003ERosalinda C.\u00a0speaks with Human Rights Watch researchers at the Instituto Tamaulipeco in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. \u00a9 2017 Human Rights Watch\n\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tImmigration crimes like illegal entry are the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2017\/04\/16\/the-immigration-policy-that-ate-the-justice-department\u0022\u003Esingle biggest category\u003C\/a\u003E of cases on the federal criminal docket nationwide, and sweep up large numbers of parents of US citizens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tThe US has been home to Rosalinda for as long as she can remember. When she was just 4 years old and her brother Mart\u00edn was 3, they left Matamoros, Mexico for Georgia. Her parents worked the fields for ten years, picking cucumber, squash, tomatoes, blueberries, peaches, and tobacco all over the south.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tPretty soon, Rosalinda was just plain Linda, speaking English and roaming the playground at her elementary school. She completed middle school but not high school. Eventually, the family began a new life in Corsicana, Texas, where Linda\u2019s dad found work in construction. Her mother stayed home while her brother went to school. Linda married her sweetheart, Abel, who was also Mexican-born. A year later, their first child, Justin, was born in Dallas, where Abel was working in construction. Not long after came Anthony and Axel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tLinda\u2019s peaceful world was rattled soon after Axel was born in 2015. Police stopped her father, Mart\u00edn Sr., for a broken tail light \u2013 and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported him. Back in Matamoros, Mart\u00edn Sr. was crossing a street to enter a store when gunfire erupted. He was killed in the crossfire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u201cI couldn\u2019t even go to his funeral because I couldn\u2019t risk crossing the border and getting separated from my kids,\u201d Linda said. That same year, Abel and Linda\u2019s marriage ended in an amicable divorce. Linda took the kids, moved in with her grieving mother, and went to work repairing phones at Samsung. She worked from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., took the boys out on Saturdays for walks, shopping, or to the movies, and on Sundays, when Abel had the boys, she and her mom cleaned house and did the laundry. The tattoo on Linda\u2019s left arm shows a dove flying up from her mother\u2019s name in cursive: Rosalaura.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tLinda wishes she had been able to apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which, since 2012, has allowed some undocumented people who entered the United States as children to defer deportation and receive a work permit if they have finished high school. Linda has no criminal convictions that would disqualify her for DACA status; her brother, Mart\u00edn, Jr., has it. But between the kids and work, Linda was too busy to finish her GED and apply.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tOn April 18, 2017, Linda and her mother were taking Justin to the doctor when the Dallas police stopped her Ford Explorer. \u201cI don\u2019t think I was speeding \u2013 I was with my mom and kid \u2013 but they said I was going 45 in a 40-mile-an-hour zone.\u201d As Justin cried and begged \u2013 \u201cplease don\u2019t take my mother!\u201d \u2013 they arrested Linda for driving without a license.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tAfter three days in Richardson County Jail \u2013 and 25 years of life in the United States \u2013 Linda was deported to a country she hadn\u2019t seen since she was 4. \u201cI\u2019d never been deported before,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know Mexico.\u201d But an aunt in Monterrey took her in. For about six weeks, she spoke constantly by phone with her sons, who all missed her. She wanted to bring them down to join her. But Mexico wouldn\u2019t work for her ex, Abel, who is starting a family with another woman, and Linda understands: Mexico and separation from their Dad wouldn\u2019t be good for her American sons, either.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tSo she paid someone US$2,000 to help smuggle her over the border and on that May night, hiking in her sneakers through a rattlesnake-infested desert, she almost managed to rejoin her family.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tWhen we saw her in Nuevo Laredo, she was buying a bus ticket to go again to her aunt\u2019s in Monterrey. But only for a while, she insisted. Next time, she\u2019s, confident, she will to make it back to her kids.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]