It’s not the sort of family separation that has been in the headlines lately. But it’s illustrative of the many other injustices that the Trump administration has been inflicting upon those navigating our legal immigration system. Absent media attention and congressional intervention — both of which this case happened to receive — they usually go unrectified.
This tale features Marco Villada, a “Dreamer” brought to the United States illegally from Mexico at age 6. Until recently, the United States was the only country he knew. Which you can definitely tell from talking with him.
Villada spent much of the past week binge-watching “Friends,” which he calls his “happy place.