When federal agents took her husband away, Kenia Colindres was fasting. It helped her listen for God, which she had been doing ever since she came to America.
Fleeing gangs in 2022, Colindres tried to listen to God along the more than 2,000 miles her family traveled from the coast of Honduras to the edge of the United States. She tried to listen as she and her husband, Wilson Velásquez, crossed the border illegally with their three children, turning themselves in to US authorities and requesting asylum. She tried to listen as she watched uniformed men cinch GPS-tracking ankle bracelets to the heads of families: to young men, to mothers traveling alone with their children, and to her husband.
“I always looked for God,” Colindres said. “I couldn’t separate myself from him.”
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