Link: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/glendy-nixon-guatemala-overland-self-deport-st-louis-immigrant-police-ice/

When 27-year-old Glendy Marisol Gonzalez de la Cruz took her three daughters and boarded a plane from St. Louis to Guatemala City on June 17, her friends begged her not to go. But Glendy had no other option: Her husband, Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz, who worked as a roofer and was the family's breadwinner, had been deported a year earlier.

her friends begged her not to go
I feel like these were more acquaintance than friends. A friend would have housed her, and ensured she can breadwin herself.

Housing a woman with 3 kids, at least one of which is a baby, is not a small ask. Could you accommodate that in your home?

It's still a tragedy, but there's only so much her friends could do.

Could you accommodate that in your home?
I have to, it's my friendly duty to do so.
I’ve done it so many times, at my own detriment, because relationships mean more to me than dead friends.

we housed a Ukrainian war refugee in our apartment here in Australia but it was only one lady, If she'd have had 3 kids as well, that would have been a struggle for sure

Considering the financial situation of most people in the US, accommodating them in your home could very likely mean that you soon become homeless.

You're assuming we won't work together to adverse possess a landlord’s property.
Americans should repossess their land back from private equitors.

Is that not a reasonable assumption to make? There are even fewer people capable of that.