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Every night, they ate together around the dinner table. Alejandro took pride in being a good provider \u2013 in addition to supporting Claudia and the five kids under his roof, he had payments withdrawn from every paycheck to support another US-born child from an earlier relationship.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\n\tIt was in 2013, Alejandro recalls, that he was first separated from his family. His ordeal began when Fort Worth police pulled him over for driving without a license plate on his car and found he didn\u2019t have a drivers\u2019 license (Texas doesn\u2019t issue them to undocumented immigrants). The officer ran his name, and an arrest warrant appeared for non-payment of child support. Alejandro said that in 2012, the company for which he had been working had laid off all of their undocumented employees. According to him, there had been a lapse in support payments while he moved into a new job. 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