Do the children go or stay behind? Deportation orders split families – Kansas
Tagged: border, children, deportation, Kansas, library, mobilePosted on: December 19th, 2006“Thirteen-year-old Jonatan Delgado, a native of Los Angeles, might soon find himself learning Spanish to survive in a country he has never even visited.
From his mothers mobile home in the western Kansas community of Liberal, a few miles from the Oklahoma border, Jonatan explained that next year he wants to play soccer, if he can maintain his high grades and balance it with his job in the school library and his activities at St. Anthony Church.
His mother, Veronica Delgado, wiped away tears as she listened. Its likely that by early 2007 the life that her boys — Jonatan, Saul, 12, Alexis, 8, and Alan, 5 — have known since birth will come to a crashing end.”
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