Life for immigrant women in the US can be very rough. Their status is constantly at the forefront of their consciousness. All they want to do is to work to maintain their children but through unfriendly immigration laws these people are kept in the shadows of society being used by farmers and other businesses that rely on this cheap labour source.

Immigrant women and their children have become the face of that struggle in Arizona when many of their working husbands were deported as a result of minor traffic stops or sweeps of their workplaces, said Wilcox. These women, Wilcox said, took the lead as the voices for their families, marching and making their stories heard.

“Because I had the nerve to speak out, I was prosecuted,” Wilcox asserted. She was indicted as part of an investigation by the sheriff, charges that were later dropped. “I suffered a lot, but not half as much as a person with no resources, who has a family torn apart by deportation and who is trying to raise children,” she said.
This story speaks about the trauma to children of parents who work illegally in the USA. They speak about the fear of being separated from their parents, being without their parents.

While Americans benefit from a higher lifestyle because of cheap labour on the one hand, others - many of whom are racially motivated, make the lives of these innocent people hell.

“Immigrant rights is not just a Latino issue, not just a black issue, it’s not even just a women’s issue--it’s a human rights issue,” she said. “Immigrant rights are not just about those of us who come here across the border, but it’s for those who come on a plane, on a boat, those of us whose ancestors came here hundreds of years ago, but are still struggling for equality and justice to this day.”
http://newamericamedia.org/2012/09/as-arizonas-papers-please-law-startsimmigrant-women-speak-out.php