Unlike her time growing up in El Salvador, Laura Maradiaga isn’t paralyzed utilizing the constant anxiety about murder in Houston. The 11-year-old can walk to Fondren Middle School to review multiplication tables and English or flake out together with her mother, older sibling and Lalo, the grouped family members dog, at the play ground near their apartment.

A year ago, her mom, Dora Alvarado, stated she knew that when Laura and her 15-year-old cousin, Adamaris Alvarado, didn’t flee El Salvador, they’d perish. Continue reading An 11-year-old woman could be deported as a result of a court error set off by the us government shutdown, lawyer says →