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Wed Mar 28, 2018, 10:37 PM Mar 2018

Desperate mom seeks refuge in Manhattan church to avoid deportation

BY Edgar Sandoval
Updated: Wednesday, March 28, 2018


An immigrant mother of two is hoping the separation of church and state keeps immigration agents from tearing her away from her two little ones.

Aura Hernandez, a 37-year-old from Guatemala, watched her 15-month-old daughter take a few bouncy steps in front of an altar at Fourth Universalist Society Church at W. 76th St. and Central Park West Wednesday afternoon and picked her in her arms.

The toddler smiled, but her mom was unable to smile back. Hernandez said the little girl and her 10-year-old son Daniel is the reason she ran into this non-denominational church about a month ago for fear an order of deportation may separate her from them.

Both children were born in the U.S. and are American citizens, she said.

“That is my worst nightmare, to be separated from them,” Hernandez said softly. “They are born here. They have rights. I came here looking for sanctuary when I reached the end of the rope,” she said softly.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/desperate-mom-seeks-refuge-church-avoid-deportation-article-1.3902124

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