My Family Divided

Diane Guerrero recounts being a young U.S.-born girl in Boston when her undocumented immigrant parents were removed from their home, detained, and deported while she was at school. Their absence overturns the family support that had shaped her life. Left behind, she is taken in by family friends. The account follows her later path as an actress and her advocacy for other immigrants, linking her family separation to her public work on behalf of immigrant communities.