Childhood Arrivals: Girl and Alcala Burst

childhood arrivals: I have you in my arms, my girl. ... You found me still alive, according to Brandon Sun. Alcala's mother left her with Bello at age 2 when she went to seek a better life in the United States. My little girl, I hugged you so much, Petra Bello Suarez tearfully told her now 23-year-old granddaughter. A year later, the little girl joined her mother and for two decades Alcala's undocumented status prevented her from returning to Mexico. Alcala burst out of the shadows. Then she became one of the hundreds of thousands protected from deportation under an Obama administration program known as DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which gave work permits to immigrants brought to the U.S as children and living in the country illegally. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.