Moments after an immigration officer in Boston approved a key step in his bid to stay in the U.S. legally, Milton Mejia was taken into custody by ICE agents and transferred to a detention center in Louisiana.

They took my husband chronicles the aftermath for Milton’s wife, Brenda, as she attempts to run his construction business and provide for their three daughters in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Even as she worries about keeping her family housed, Brenda wrestles with another fear – that her husband will be sent back to Honduras to face the deadly violence they both fled.

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