The Father’s Plea that Ice Didn’t Hear: “I Have a Daughter with Down Syndrome and Autism and a Wife with Cancer, Don’t Deport Me”

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The phone rings, it’s Dad, who has become as small as the cell phone screen, and that’s far away, in a place called Lima, in Peru. “Ashley, my baby!” the father greets the daughter, with a voice that enters the apartment in Miami Gardens far away where they lived together for years. The girl is focused on the music that comes out of her tablet, she doesn’t listen to her. “Ashley, my cute chinita!” the father says to her again, but the girl acts …