Source: Washington Post
by Natalia Molina
“My mother’s brother, Carlos, recently passed away at 92. When I called my mom to see how she was doing, she told me she was looking at a picture from the day 87 years earlier when the two of them were taken into their adoptive mother’s home. ‘He looked so scared,’ she said. I couldn’t help thinking how their experience as orphans with an uncertain future resonates with the fears of many families facing the threat of separation and mass deportation today. Carlos and my mother were U.S. citizens, born in California to immigrant parents. With their birth parents gone, they could easily have fallen into the foster system and been separated — and even deported to Mexico. … as someone who has studied immigration policy and immigrant communities, family separation seems like one of the most American stories there is.” (12/04/24)