Mothers Day in the U.S. will become an opportunity to pay tribute to gradually have become the mainstay of the family.

Today, 40% of families in the American Union are headed and main source of income to a woman.

Today, many of these women who are both mothers, living in a purgatory. Pending deportation. Or a miracle.

As for Catia Álvarez Paz, a Salvadoran immigrant who just yesterday received a call from Immigration and Customs to inform the government had granted a one year extension to his process.

“It was like a miracle. Right now I’m going to withdraw the electronic bracelet. And Sunday go to church to give thanks and be with my family. Was a surprise and a great gift for mothers day” said Catia who had their deportation date set for the 23rd of this month.

Catia came at age 17 to the United States. Since entering the country has been 12 years. At that time she met her husband, also Salvadoran, who has a legal residence through the program Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

“We want to break our family. God has given me my wife and my daughters. And every day we prayed to avoid deportation. Apparently, God has heard us on this occasion. We have been given another year extension and are happy. But the fight does not end yet, “said Germán Reyes, Catia husband, who could not hide his joy.

However, not every day as a miracle which has momentarily brought to Catia who has lived in purgatory occurs.

Like Catia, Juana Luz Ortega Tobar, mother and grandmother of U.S. citizens remain in the queue to leave the country as part of deportation.

“My mother has more than 25 years in this country. Past two years, we have lived a nightmare not knowing when it’s going to take. When we run out of it,” said Molina Lesvi, his daughter from his family home in North Carolina North.

Two years ago, Juana Light Tobar was arrested for not having papers.

For over 20 years, he managed to raise a family and get away from the violence that forced her to leave Guatemala.

“Today is a nightmare. My mother has never committed a crime. Has always worked. Paid your taxes.’s Very frustrating and informative legal vacuum. Do not know if, when we get home, going to be,” said Molina Lesvi.

Although the Department of Homeland Security has announced the revision of its deportation policies, “to apply the law in a more humane way,” families with members blacklisted live in anxiety.

The decision by the White House to review the policies of deportation, faces pressure from defenders of the migrant community organizations that have demanded to extend the Deferred Action Program announced and launched September 2012.

In numbers

- The deportation of immigrant men is still at the head of the statistics of the Bureau of Immigration and Adunas (ICE) with 94%, a high proportion of 6% of women are often expelled mothers.

- His expulsion, in many cases, often have devastating effects for thousands of children are given to relatives, acquaintances and in some cases they are placed for adoption.