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we first met petrona and her son rudy 1300 miles south in el centro, california. her toddler, so exhausted sleeping through the interview as his mother recounts the nightmare of their life in guatemala. "i just want us to live" she says, "and it wasn't going to happen at home." people threatening the life of rudy unless she made them. they already killed two other members of the family. her husband had already slipped illegally into america last year. she would do the same. two weeks ago, like so many others, she slipped easily into mexico at the guatemalan border. shortly after she crossed a river into texas, she was arrested and brought to a detention center joining dozens of other mothers and children. to cope with the tens of thousands of central americans like petrona, the government flew her and hundreds of others to arizona, then drove them to the border patrol center in el centro, california, to be fingerprinted, have their picture taken and given notice to appear in court. she's released on her own recognizance. "i'm almost there" she tells her husband us

we first met petrona hen her son rudy 1300 miles south in el centro, california. her toddler, so exhausted, sleeps through the interview. as his mother recounts the nightmare of their life in guatemala. >> translator: i just want us to live and it wasn't going to happen at home." dwa watt ma lan gangs threatened to kidnap and kill rudy unless she paid them. they'd already broken both the legs of petrona's father and killed another child in the family. to escape a death threat, her husband had already slipped illegally into america last year. she would do the same. two weeks ago, like so many others, she slipped easily into mexico at the guatemalan border but shortly after she crossed a river into texas she was arrested and brought to a detention center, joining dozens of other mothers and children. to cope with the tens of thousands of central americans like petrona, the government flew her and about 100 others to arizona. then drove them to the border patrol center in el accept to re, california, to be fingerprinted, have their picture taken and given notice to a

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>> no. >> reporter: she won't go back, says petrona. whether she's welcome in the u.s. or not, her son will at least be alive, living in the shadows. so what happens to her now? she does have that court date in washington. will she show up? she didn't want to answer that. the nonprofit helping the undocumented immigrants say they believe that most will appear before these judges, but opponents say that's simply naive. why would they? they're out. they're in america. the risk of deportation, say opponents, is simply too high. kyung lah, cnn, along the u.s./mexico international border. >> and joining me now is wendy young, who is an advocate for undocumented children. she's the president of a group called kids in need of defense it the acronym spells k.i.n.d. in "the wall street journal," you wrote a piece with a former head of i.c.e., the immigration and customs enforcement, saying our immigration system fails to provide any legal support for undocumented immigrants, especially children, and i think this might be surprising for a lot of people to understand. but when the

to cope with the influx of central americans like petrona, the government flew them to el centro. to be fingerprinted, have their picture taken and appear in court. hers is in the state of washington where her husband lives. she waits in a shelter to head north to her husband, also undocumented. he fled goo wauatemala years ag. neighborhood house, the nonprofit sheltering the women and children said all the undocuments they're housing are leaving california on buses paid for by their families. el centro's incoming mayor says unlike murrieta which has seen loud protests of the immigrants coming to their station, his city will help them. >> what happens to them is up to the federal judges to decide. it's not up to us to decide. and so we owe them a responsibility to provide a safe environment. >> you can't go back. >> no. >> she won't go back, says petrona, whether she's welcome in the u.s. or not, her son will at least be alive, living in the shadows. so what happens to her now? she does have that court date to appear in washington. will she show up? she said that she didn't want t