Carla Gloria Colomé

3 days ago | english.elpais.com | Carla Gloria Colomé |Andres Kudacki

Last weekend, immigration attorney Liudmila Armas Marcelo spent her time not just listening to — but above all, calming — many of her desperate clients who had received orders to leave the United States within seven days. Her phone rang nonstop. On the other end were people on the brink of a breakdown. One client’s blood pressure skyrocketed. Another’s son, who suffers from health issues, was severely affected. “People panicked,” Marcelo recalls.

3 days ago | elpais.com | Carla Gloria Colomé |Andres Kudacki

El fin de semana pasado, la abogada de migración Liudmila Armas Marcelo se lo pasó escuchando, pero sobre todo calmando a muchos de sus clientes desesperados tras recibir una orden de abandonar Estados Unidos en un plazo de siete días. El teléfono de la letrada sonaba y volvía a sonar. La gente del otro lado estaba casi a punto de un ataque de nervios. A una clienta le subió la presión. El hijo de otra, con problemas de salud, estaba tremendamente afectado. “La gente entró en pánico”, dice Marcelo.

1 week ago | english.elpais.com | Carla Gloria Colomé |Nicholas Dale Leal

They dressed her in a white gown and placed a floral headband over her curly hair. Seven-year-old Daniela Patricia Ferrer Reyes entered the Immigration Court building in Dallas, Texas, as if entering a castle. “My daughter looked like a princess,” says her mother, Liettys Rachel Reyes. “They praised her so much in court; they told her that’s what she was, a princess.

1 week ago | elpais.com | Carla Gloria Colomé

La vistieron con una bata blanca y, sobre el cabello rizado, le colocaron un cintillo de flores. Daniela Patricia Ferrer Reyes, de siete años, entró al edificio de la Corte de Inmigración de Dallas (Texas) como quien llega a un castillo. “Mi hija parecía una princesa”, cuenta su madre, Liettys Rachel Reyes. “La elogiaron muchísimo en el tribunal, le decían que eso era, una princesa. Y así la veo yo”.

1 week ago | english.elpais.com | Carla Gloria Colomé |Miguel Jiménez

The city of Doral, in Miami-Dade County, fears it will never be the same again. Some say businesses and streets will empty out, that people will stay silent about violence rather than report it, and that fear will spread among the immigrant community. When police officers begin working hand in hand with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as local authorities are planning, the Venezuelan stronghold in the United States will become a dangerous place for its residents.