Borders Between Us: deported1217

Maria Mendoza-Sanchez lays on a chair, staring at the ceiling of her mother's home as rain falls unrelenting outside, keeping the internet and phone service from working, cutting her off from communication with her daughters Oct. 1, 2017 in Santa Monica, Hidalgo, Mexico. The phone service is very unreliable in the small town Maria now lives in and weather even as benign as high winds can take out the home's internet connection, cutting them off from the outside world. Many days Maria says she simply stares out the window, thinking of her children, her heart aching, wishing she was with them.