{"id":169552,"date":"2025-05-09T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=169552"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:45:18","slug":"deported-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/deported-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mothers Redefining What It Means to Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Emma S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>‘s children were two months, three, and four years old when she crossed the border from the United States to Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She returned to her home country to complete the paperwork, allowing her to marry her children’s father, a U.S. citizen and war veteran. When she tried to return from Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, she was warned that, for the next ten years<\/strong>, she would not be able to return to the US, where her children were born and living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it wasn’t ten years\u2014it was twelve and a half years that Emma spent separated from her family. She would see them on Sundays, if their routines allowed it. During the week, she could only be present via video call for school events. Still, she remained present despite the border, despite the immigration policies that separated thousands of children from their families, despite the years. When she returned, they were adults. “They’re grown now. I left children, I left babies. I find men.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma’s story, told by herself, is part of a community archive of more than 600 testimonies from migrants and deportees<\/strong>. The two videos in which she and her family describe the difficulties they faced and the joy of their reunion were recorded in 2017 and became the fourth entry in what is now the Humanizing Deportation project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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