The text message was brief but urgent: “Mimi, I’ve been detained. Help me.”
For Portland couple Mimi Lettunich and Kris Wigger, those six words instantly turned them into full-time caregivers of four children whose parents had been taken into detention this summer.
“You know, we were on the verge of empty nesting, if not technically empty nested. You know, we have older kids now,” Wigger said, describing their life before the sudden change…