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When her husband is detained by ICE, Chelsea, MA resident Brenda Romero must take over his construction business, manage her family’s increasingly precarious finances and navigate looming homelessness. Along the way, she becomes a vocal immigrant rights advocate fighting for her family - and for a community in the crosshairs of a federal immigration crackdown.
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00:01My husband had already filed an asylum.
00:05He presented his court.
00:07The ICE officials entered me and arrested me.
00:12I've always heard people in the community get detained by ICE.
00:16I never thought it was going to be my family up next.
00:18In Chelsea, a sense of siege is gripping the community after ICE arrests.
00:22In a blink of an eye, there's five people taken in.
00:26We cannot stop them.
00:27I love you.
00:30Since he's not present, I've got to assume responsibility.
00:37Please, pass this law. That would be justice.
00:41I need to feel my desperation as a wife, as a mother.
00:46I always tell the Lord that he gave me a family and that he will return to my family.
00:57what you do.
00:57I should not be able to do it.
00:57Please, I'll read, if I can, please.
00:58Let's pray for you.

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