In a matter of days, she was deported to Guatemala—without Ederson and his older sister Briseidy. Mirsy was reliving a nightmare. The first time she was separated from one child. Now she had been separated from both. The kids uprooted their lives to be with her in Guatemala and it wasn't easy. [6]

Ederson continued to struggle after the reunification. He became hypervigilant and didn’t want to go to school because It reminded him of the shelter. Years later, the Biden administration reached a settlement with the ACLU in the class action lawsuit known as Ms. L that challenged the policy. [4]

The first Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was in full swing. Mirsy and Ederson were separated for four and a half months. She had no idea what had happened to him. It turns out he was in a government shelter in Phoenix, just an hour away from where she was detained. [2]

Estrada Juarez went to Mexico City over the weekend to pray at the Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe then flew to Tijuana Sunday morning, before driving to the border today. Her parole authorization was approved, according to her lawyer. Her daughter Damaris Bello is waiting to reunite with her.

The January letter shows the ICE areas of responsibility where the arrests of DACA recipients have taken place:

SCOOP: In a January letter to Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), DHS says 270 DACA recipients have been arrested from January to September 2025. In addition, 174 DACA applicants have been deported, according to ICE records. Those numbers differ from what was shared with Sen. Dick Durbin in February.

Late last night, Julio Zambrano's sister sent me this photo of him home with his mother in Venezuela.

4/ The family was released in May 1944. Donald didn’t learn the full story until adulthood. Her father didn’t talk about it. When Donald asked her mother, she couldn't get a word out without crying. “It was the most terrible experience in her life, and I hadn’t even been aware of it.”