Sara Martinez never wanted her two daughters to grow up poor and anxious about life, the way she had in Ecuador. But that is what happened.
Ms. Martinez lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with her younger daughter, a United States citizen who was born not long after Ms. Martinez, her husband and their older daughter arrived here on a tourist visa from Ecuador in 2005. Ms. Martinez later sent her older daughter to live with friends in another state because she feared the girl would be discovered by immigration officials and deported.
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