Justice
A New TV Show Puts a Personal Story at the Center of the Deportation Debate
An upcoming series based on actor Diane Guerrero’s memoir will illuminate the lives of undocumented residents.
When the actor Diane Guerrero, known for her work on Jane the Virgin and Orange Is the New Black, was 14, she came home from high school in Boston to find her parents gone.
Before Guerrero was born, the couple had traveled to America from their native Colombia, searching, like so many families before and after them, for a respite from the violence and lack of opportunity in their homeland, and hoping to find a better life. They stayed with friends in New Jersey, then moved on to Boston. In each place they lived, they met with attorneys, looking for a path to legal residence but meeting dead ends.