Inserts:

00:03 Report | Janelle Dumalaon
00:10 Deonna Nungaray

Script:

00:01
For Diana, life right now is about subtraction. What she can live without.

00:05 SOT Deonna Nungaray
"I'll eat, like, once a day. It it's easier to buy fast food because a McChicken or a McDoubles both, um, they're like 4 or $5 for two. Um, so that's kind of what I just eat, like a McChicken and a McDouble a day." 

00:22 SOT Deonna Nungaray
"And then my car payments are 250 every two weeks. Yeah, I'm really behind on my car payments right now."

00:30 
On February 14, Deonna Nungaray's mother, Maria was arrested in Valley Brook, Oklahoma after a traffic stop. The police eventually  turned her over to immigration authorities, and she has been detained in this correctional facility since then - one of tens of thousands swept up in an ongoing immigration crackdown. 

00:49 SOT Deonna
"Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. That's actually my mom

(Telefongespräch Tochter mit Mutter)
Deonna: how are you doing? (Bien, ¿cómo estás?) 

Mother: Well, I was looking for books because I don't have anything left to read, but nobody has any... and things like that. 

(Bien, andaba en búsqueda de libros porque ya no tengo ningún libro que leer, pero nadie tiene... y muchas cosas así)) 

Deonna: Don't worry, we are doing fine mom. ((No te preocupes, estamos bien mama.)) 

Mother: Ok, talk to you soon. 

Deonna: I love you.

01:06
Deonna was a working student one year from finishing a double major in neuroscience and psychology in Colorado, which came home to Oklahoma for a school break. She never made it back. Her mother's detention forced Deanna to stay to manage the legal fight to bring Maria (mother) home and help her family shoulder bills they could no longer afford without her mother's income.

01:27 SOT Deonna Nungaray
"I want to say my biggest two worries are my car and my loans. Because if I get behind on my loans, I can't go back to school. So. And I can't get my car repo´d (repossessed) because I need it to move. So those are my biggest two. And insurance." 

01:41 Reporter: "Do you have money left in the bank?"

01:43 SOT Deonna Nungaray
"No, I pay my insurance today, so I have, like, $0.70, I think, you know."

01:12 
On February 14, Deonna Nungaray's mother, Maria was arrested in Valley Brook, Oklahoma after a traffic stop. The police eventually  turned her over to immigration authorities, and she has been detained in this correctional facility since then - one of tens of thousands swept up in an ongoing immigration crackdown. 

SOT Deonna
"Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. That's actually my mom

01:34 (Telefongespräch Tochter mit Mutter)
Deonna: how are you doing? (Bien, ¿cómo estás?) 

Mother: Well, I was looking for books because I don't have anything left to read, but nobody has any... and things like that. 

(Bien, andaba en búsqueda de libros porque ya no tengo ningún libro que leer, pero nadie tiene... y muchas cosas así)) 

Deonna: Don't worry, we are doing fine mom. ((No te preocupes, estamos bien mama.)) 

Mother: Ok, talk to you soon. 

Deonna: I love you.

01:49 
Maria's immigration saga had seemed nearly over. Her green card petition was approved and a biometrics appointment was set, one of the last steps before her decision.

01:58
Detention changed that.

02:00 frei stehen laqssen
Hey. Oh, my name's Deonna. 

02:06
Many of Diana's working days are very long. From staffing agency work to driving for Amazon and bartending nights. But today she's in court. Or at least in her lawyer's office for a virtual immigration court hearing. Set a short notice.

02:21 
Her brother is here too

02:23 SOT Deonna
"UnFortunately, we did not hear very good news. The judge denied her case, and so we had to file a motion to appeal."

02:34 
for now None of Diana's battles look like they'll be over soon. Whether it's the struggle to reunite her family or the fight just to get by.

02:45 ENDE