Reunion at Mexico Border: After 6 years, Dreamers See Their Mothers Griselda Nevarez - VOXXI
go to original June 13, 2013

This is what immigration reform looks lile. Organizers of United We Dream arrange a family reunion between UWD leaders and deported moms from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico to meet at the Nogales border in Arizona. (unitedwedream)

For the past six years, thousands of miles have separated three Dreamers from their mothers who were deported. But recently, it was only a rusted steel fence that separated the three Dreamers from their mothers as they reunited at the Southern border.

United We Dream organized the reunion. The group released a video Tuesday showing how the three Dreamers traveled to Nogales, Ariz., to reunite with their mothers, who stood on the Mexico side of the border.

Among them were Renata Teodora, whose mother was deported to Brazil in 2007, and Carlos Padilla, whose mother returned to Mexico to care for aging relatives and hasn’t been able to return to the United States.

The third Dreamer was Evelyn Rivera. Her mother was deported to Colombia six years ago after being stopped and detained for driving without a license. Rivera was about to graduate from high school when her mother was deported.

In a newsletter sent out Tuesday by United We Dream, Rivera said she and her mother haven’t been able to touch or see each other in person for six years.

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