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WKUPJ Senior Skyler Ballard tells a story of immigration

March 3, 2019

En Muerto En Vida

Stuck in limbo, a family fights their father’s deportation.

BY SKYLER BALLARD

In the thirteen years that Jorge and Christina Zaldivar have been married, the family has been fighting for Jorge’s legal residency in the U.S. With a changing administration and an increasing focus on ICE and immigration policies, the family fears that Jorge’s time in the U.S. will soon be up.

Ballard began documenting the family during her summer internship at The Denver Post. See the entire story here.

 

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