Chabeli Carrazana

Economy and Child Care Reporter

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Her first night in the bunks, she thought about how this place might change her. Would her sons in the beds above and beside her see their father again? What would she have to do to protect them? And did she have the strength?

The rooms on this side of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, near San Antonio, housed only women with their children. Nicolle Orozco Forero and her boys, ages 5 and 7, arrived there on an afternoon in June, awaiting a deportation she was sure would come.

When she woke up from a nightmare around 9 p.m., she turned to see if her husband was beside her. He had been separated from her when they arrived, as her boys cried. “We want to stay i

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