Immigrants find support through Santa Fe program
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lila has spent her entire life watching people come and go.
She witnessed her parents flee their home country of Guatemala to come to the United States only to be deported time and time again.
And with that nightmare as a prologue, the uncertainty continues to gnaw at the 22-year-old single mother.
She mourns the separation from her father — his last deportation was in 2013, and she hasn't seen him since. She fears she will one day come home to find her mother also expelled.
Lila is able to express that anxiety at Gerard's House — a Santa Fe nonprofit dedicated to providing support to grieving children, teens and families.