Two Fort Worth teenagers, suddenly on their own. For nearly a year, 19-year-old Dulce Zepeda has been raising her 13-year-old sister, Maria, in the months since their parents were arrested by ICE and then deported.
When NBC 5 Investigates first met Dulce and Maria in April, they were living in a Fort Worth apartment complex. Dulce, cooking, driving her sister to middle school, working at a local McDonald’s, and selling her mother’s jewelry, she said, to help pay bills.
“You never know whenever is the last hug that you’re going to have from your parents. You don’t know, you’ll never know how stressful and hard life is without them,” Dulce told NBC 5 Investigates.
The girls are U.S. citizens and legally entitled to remain in the country. But some immigration advocates say their case is a stark example of the precarious situations facing thousands of U.S. citizen children whose parents have been detained during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.



What I don’t understand is where does that stop? How many generations do they go back and decide people don’t belong in the US?
Depends on how white you are.
This is likely the answer. See how we are granting refugee status, almost exclusively, to white South Africans.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/south-africa-white-genocide-afrikaner-refugees-asylum/
Various combinations of white, wealthy, attractive, and socially connected puts you in a pretty protected class. Enough of those and you’ll be in government.
It doesn’t. Fascists will always define a smaller and smaller US to oppose the THEM.
Right up until most of their supporters’ parents immigrated. 3-4 generations should do it