Carmen Sesin

5 days ago | nbcnews.com | Nicole Acevedo |Anthony Cusumano |Suzanne Gamboa |Carmen Sesin

A girl recovering from a rare brain tumor celebrated her 11th birthday on Sunday, hundreds of miles away from everything she's known — her friends at school, her community at church, her home. She's one of four U.S. citizen children who were sent to Mexico from Texas three months ago when immigration authorities deported their undocumented parents.

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Carmen Sesin

Heidy Sánchez was so distraught that she got on the rooftop of a house in Havana to get Wi-Fi connection and send her daughter a bedtime lullaby via WhatsApp. The Tampa-area mother was deported to Cuba last week without her 17-month-old U.S.-citizen daughter, who has a history of seizures and was still being breastfed, she and her lawyers told NBC News. “My daughter tells me over the phone, ‘Come, mama.’ And when she cries, she just keeps saying, ‘Mama, mama, mama.’ It’s overwhelming ...

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Carmen Sesin |Julia Ainsley

One mother who was about to be deported was allowed less than two minutes on the phone with her husband to figure out what would become of her 2-year-old U.S. citizen son. Another mother wasn’t allowed to speak with attorneys or family members before she was deported, accompanied by her U.S.-born children, even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement knew one of them had Stage 4 cancer.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Carmen Sesin |Orlando Matos

Cuba says it will continue receiving deportation flights from the U.S. based on a previous accord between the two countries, even though the State Department says it has no plans to hold migration talks with the island’s government. But the suspension of migration talks comes as President Donald Trump continues to crack down on immigrants and carry out what he calls the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Carmen Sesin

Cuba says it will continue receiving deportation flights from the U.S. based on a previous accord between the two countries, even though the State Department says it has no plans to hold migration talks with the island’s government. But the suspension of migration talks comes as President Donald Trump continues to crack down on immigrants and carry out what he calls the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history.