Losing Gloria
After their mother was arrested and deported to Nogales, Mexico, the Marin children became wards of the state, forced to split up and live in separate homes in an overwhelmed and underfunded foster care system. Their story is just one example of the roughly half a million U.S.-born children who’ve lost a parent to arrest, detention, and deportation between 2009 and 2013.
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The California Sunday Magazine
Published: Jun 1, 2017
Length: 26 minutes (6,730 words)