Border showdown: Families will demand U.S. entry to reunite with relatives

*This article was suggested by Taquista Ito Romo.

By Michael Martinez and Jaqueline Hurtado, CNN

Los Angeles (CNN) — Juana Vidal yearns to reunite with her undocumented immigrant son and his family, but she fears the stakes involved.

Her son, Elesban Vidal, his wife and their two daughters will join as many as 125 families that will try to cross the California-Mexico border on Monday and demand that U.S. officials allow them back in the country to join with their U.S. relatives through a humanitarian visa or asylum.

Most, if not all, of the 125 families had earlier lived in the United States as undocumented immigrants, including some who were earlier deported.

The dramatic maneuver by so many families is designed to renew attention to how the U.S. immigration system painfully breaks up families when members are deported for being undocumented immigrants.

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