{"id":1027,"date":"2023-09-26T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T00:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/this-teen-wrote-a-book-about-how-it-felt-when-her-mom-was-deported-to-mexico\/26\/09\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T20:56:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T00:56:21","slug":"this-teen-wrote-a-book-about-how-it-felt-when-her-mom-was-deported-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/this-teen-wrote-a-book-about-how-it-felt-when-her-mom-was-deported-to-mexico\/26\/09\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"This teen wrote a book about how it felt when her mom was deported to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Estela Juarez, 14, who wrote a children’s book about her mother Alejandra’s deportation to Mexico, is back with her mom but says her family continues to suffer from the effects of family separation.<\/p>\n

“I want to become a senator one day to change immigration laws,” Estela tells TODAY.com<\/a>, adding that she is writing her second book, a young adult novel about her life experiences.<\/p>\n

“Until Someone Listens<\/a>,” was published by Macmillan on Sept. 13, 2022 and co-written with Lissette Norman. The book is a recollection of Estela’s childhood memories: learning that her mom did not have documentation (“a man from the government came to our house”), watching Alejandra be deported to Mexico (“It felt like someone ripped us in half”) and living apart.<\/p>\n

“I was a cloud \u2014 a gloomy cloud that sits and stays,” Estela wrote.<\/p>\n

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