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Her children are waiting for her.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ELucia described how her family suffers in her absence. Her 5-year-old has stopped eating and was hospitalized, her husband had to leave his job working in the fields to take care of him, and their eldest son suffered a breakdown at 14 and is now receiving therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy little one tells me, \u2018come back, mami. I\u2019m not going to eat anymore. I don\u2019t want to live because you don\u2019t come back,\u2019\u201d said Luc\u00eda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EBorn in Mexico, Luc\u00eda first came to the US in 1999. 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For two years, she cared for her mother. She thought about staying, but her children had difficulty adjusting to life in Mexico. They were often sick and missed their home in the California countryside.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EIn December 2015, after Luc\u00eda\u2019s mother health had improved, the family set out to return to California. The children crossed legally because, born in the US, they\u2019re citizens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey were crying, begging me not to leave them; they wanted to cross the desert with me,\u201d recalled the mother.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ELuc\u00eda could not imagine that she would never hug them again.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EOn December 25, she first tried to cross the border to join her children in the US. She was repeatedly caught and sent back to Mexico. She believes that the smugglers had used her as \u201cbait\u201d \u2013 people they give up to border agents to distract them while others cross.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EIn January 2016, she was criminally prosecuted for illegal reentry. \u201cThey brought me to the Aransas County prison in Rockport, Texas, where they gave me a three-month sentence.\u201d She was then transferred to a private immigration detention center in Houston, where she was locked up for 10 months while she tried to find a way to remain in the US, but she was ultimately deported in April 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, she\u2019s planning to make another attempt to reunite with her family.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ETalking on the phone to her 11-year-old daughter can be excruciating. \u201cLast Friday, she graduated from school. She does not believe that I love my children as much as I say I do. She tells me simply that I don\u2019t want to come back for them. How do I not want to be with them if I\u2019ve tried more than seven times?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ELuc\u00eda looked down at her hands, played with a ring given to her by her children, and firmly said, \u201cI have to try again. It\u2019s no longer what I want to do, it\u2019s what I have to do. The judge told me that when my children turn 21, they can petition for me\u2026 Twenty-one, when they are grown adults? And for what? They need me now!\u201d\u00a0\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}]