A Guatemalan family in Canada facing deportation wonders what will become of their children who are US citizens. Many Central Americans living without proper documentation in the US went to Canada, gambling that it would be easier to get asylum up north. Reporter Emma Jacobs talks with a Guatemalan woman who is now facing deportation and has to decide whether to send her children to the States or take them with her to Guatemala.
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