AUBURN — Almost everything in the Reyes household must be sold. The large dining room table, underneath a print of The Last Supper. Two sturdy wooden side tables. The TV.
The Reyeses need money — and fast — to pay lawyers who can help family members born in Honduras hold on to the American life they have built over decades. Otherwise, not only would that life slip away but the family would break apart. Those born abroad, who have lived in the U.S. legally for 26 years with temporary protected status, would go back to Honduras by as soon as Sept. 8 under orders by the Trump administration.
They would leave behind children, grandchildren and siblings born in the U.S.
Material things don’t matter,” said Carolina, the 34-year-old mother of four, including a newborn. “It’s just being togethe