Pedro Lopez describing his mother’s detention and deportation from the United States. How did the experience of detention and deportation affect both Lopez and his mother? What part of Lopez’s story stands out to you as being symbolic of the US’s broken immigration system? What were the immigration policies of Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump and how did they impact people like Pedro Lopez and his mother?

Pedro Lopez describing his mother’s detention and deportation from the United States. How did the experience of detention and deportation affect both Lopez and his mother? What part of Lopez’s story stands out to you as being symbolic of the US’s broken immigration system? What were the immigration policies of Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump and how did they impact people like Pedro Lopez and his mother?