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Now a year later she lives with the choice she never wanted to make.

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Maria Santiago, has become something of a cause célèbre in Salt Lake City. Married, mother of four, 41, the manager of a McDonald’s in Salt Lake City, Maria got a final deportation notice in 2017 after living in Utah for nearly 14 years. Maria had worked on a stolen social security card, one of the thousands like her in Utah. They were in Utah illegally, but they didn’t fear deportation, not under Bush, not under Obama. Stay out of trouble, you didn’t have to worry about La Migra. Criminals were deported, not moms.

Story:
Gillian Friedman

Photojournalist:
Laura Seitz

Editing:
Laura Seitz
Rex Warner

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Chuck Wing

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