Shelter is a play based on interviews with Central American kids about the violence that drove them to migrate north, and the experience of living in limbo in the U.S. It opens this weekend.
"Central America"
Central American Families Fear Deportation As Raids Begin
Immigration agents are rounding up Central American families who entered the U.S. illegally within the past two years. They are mainly mothers with children whose asylum claims have been rejected.
U.S. Planning Operation To Deport Central American Families
Many of the families had fled violence but have been denied asylum and ignored an order to leave issued by an immigration judge.