BuzzFeed - "I cannot visit my friends and do things I would usually do. But on the other hand, my family will come here to visit me ... it's harder to live in fear with a deportation order." Rosa Robles Loreto Lamp Left Media WASHINGTON â For the first time in years, Rosa Robles Loreto and her family didn't celebrate Christmas in their Tucson home. Nor had they decorated their tree, shopped for presents, or engaged in any of the traditional holiday traditions most Christians in the United States were enjoying. Instead, Robles, her husband, and their two children opened presents and ate Christmas dinner in the Southside Presbyterian Church, the place Robles has called home since she fled her home Aug. 7 after the Obama administration had ordered her deportation. "It is very difficult," Robles says of her months long separation from her family. Although her children spend weekends at the church, they remain at home with their father on weekdays. Robles came to Arizona 15 years ago
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