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How to plan a family when your legal status threatens everything

I have been undocumented for fifteen years and my citizen wife wants to have children but I am terrified of being deported and leaving them fatherless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire for family collides with the vulnerability of existing in legal limbo.

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“Where Are You with Immigration and identity?”

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