With partners who were in the country illegally, some American women choose to move to Mexico
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Numerous families face heartbreaking choices: stay in the U.S. and risk a loved one’s ending up in ICE detention, restart their lives together in Mexico or live apart.
MEXICO CITY — Lois Muñoz, originally from Brooklyn, New York, has been living in her husband Alfredo’s family compound in Puebla, Mexico, for the past three months. Because she has no car and speaks very little Spanish, her world has shrunk dramatically from the busy life she led as a waitress at a diner in Middletown, New York.
Muñoz is one of a growing number of Americans who’ve made the move south, choosing to accompany their undocumented spouses who are voluntarily leaving in light of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
A report released in December by American Families United, a nonprofit organization advocating for U.S. citizens and their immigrant spouses, estimated that 1.5 million U.S. citizens are separated or live in fear of separation from the person or country they love because they are in relationships with mixed immigration statuses. The report details the impact for children born of mixed-status marriages, who remain in limbo because of their parents’ immigration statuses.
NBC News spoke with three families facing wrenching choices: stay in the U.S. and risk a loved one’s ending up in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, restart their lives together in Mexico or decide to live apart.
For Muñoz, making the move to Mexico was an easier legal path than risking her husband being detained. Americans married to or in common-law relationships with Mexican nationals can apply for temporary, then permanent, Mexican residency under “Family Unit” rules and then obtain work permits. However, the move came with significant sacrifices, as well as a language barrier.
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