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Sonia felt leaving her son with the nuns, to continue his education in the US, was her best option.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard, so hard,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I\u2019ll just have to be here, seeing him whenever I can.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tHer plan, as she described it at a migrant help center, was to stay in Nuevo Laredo and have David travel from Laredo on weekends to visit her here. Getting settled has been difficult \u2013 the 39-year-old waitress was having trouble obtaining the Mexican documents needed to get a job.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tFifteen years ago, Sonia, who was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, traveled to Texas on a US tourist visa to care for a grandmother who had permanent resident status. 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They separated, and he moved to Indiana. Sonia was never able to collect child support, she said, because her husband knew she was vulnerable, as an undocumented immigrant, and that he could \u201cblackmail\u201d her.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tThe nuns sometimes watched David after school, so that Sonia could work enough hours to make ends meet. But she mostly worked at night, so that she could be with David, taking him bike riding, skating, to church, or to play with friends at the park.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tAbout three months ago, she said \u2013 \u201csince Trump said they were going to crack down on immigrants\u201d \u2013 she was stopped by Border Patrol agents as she got off a city bus. It happened to her at 3 a.m. on July 22, as she made her way home from a shift at Denny\u2019s. Immigration and Customs Enforcement locked her in immigration detention and deported her ten days later.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tSonia doesn\u2019t know whether her divorce was ever finalized, and she fears that if her ex finds out she\u2019s been deported, he\u2019ll take David. But if she gets lucky, she said, David can stay with the nuns until he is eleven years old; after that, the home houses only girls. 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