How do you mend a broken heart?

Not a week goes by that we do not have a child come to our office with a parent, in hopes of the Isenberg Center for Immigration Empowerment (ICIE) finding a way to resolve an immigration issue that the other parent is experiencing.

More often than not, the parent absent is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and we at ICIE must take special time to deal with a child whose heart is broken. Our work is very emotional. We keep a supply of arts and crafts at the office for the children to use while we confer with the grownups. Yesterday, a nine year old named Ashley worked feverishly on a project which she taped to the water fountain hoping I would see her message after she left. This message is why we at ICIE work so hard to help our matters. Our ways are sometimes crude and “out of the box,” but ICIE refuses to stand by and allow innocent children like Ashley suffer.