Caught in the middle
Then, it unraveled.
On a balmy Sept. 6 in Wilmer, outside Dallas, she was pulled over by the police as she rode on the back of a motorcycle driven by her husband, 30-year-old Juan Espinoza. She was stopped for not wearing a helmet, but a routine check of her record found an arrest warrant. She'd been ordered to report for deportation in 2002.
Caught in the middle: an infant named Kevin Isaac, born a U.S. citizen with a father in the U.S. legally and a mother in the U.S. illegally. Ms. Villalobos was deported.
Unable to bear the separation from her son, now 9 months old, she returned to the U.S. in November and was detained in Arizona.
On Thursday she was deported again to Honduras – without seeing her young son and now six months pregnant, her husband says.
Her story is one echoing through many families with mixed immigration status, as a crackdown on illegal immigrants cleaves communities."
DIANNE SOLíS in the Dallas Morning News.