An immigration raid in NY left two boys with no mom and a brutal choice: Do we stay or go?

Fulton, N.Y. — The last time Jose and Nain Maldonado-Zavala saw their mother was when she made them pancakes for the first day of school Sept. 4.

They got on the school bus, headed to eighth and ninth grade in Fulton. She went to her job at the Nutrition Bar Confectioners Factory in Cato.

A few hours later, immigration agents stormed the factory. Hilda Gloria Yanez-Zavala was among the 57 workers detained. Like more than 20 of the workers who were taken with her, Yanez-Zavala was separated from her children…

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