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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
National
Valerie Russ

Keeping hope alive amid the stress: Pa. mother stranded in Mexico by immigration blunder is expecting a baby

PHILADELPHIA — Last week, Karen Serrano Roberts, the Yeadon mother of five who has been stuck in an immigration nightmare for nearly two years, turned 32. Alone in Mexico.

It wasn't exactly a celebration.

"I woke up crying," she said the next day on a phone call. "It's not the same. You want to forget it's your birthday. You're lonely. Then I just pray, and then it's just like something lifts off of me. It's just the most amazing, radical thing."

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