US Immigration Policy and Its Impact on Immigrants: Reassembling the Stories of Deported Mothers and Their Transnational Children Through the Healing Spirit of Coatlicue and Coyolxauhqui 97 Sandra L. Candel and Norma A. Marrun Contents Introduction ..................................................................................... 2224 (Re)writing Mothering Through Coatlicue’ s Daughter Coyolxauhqui ........................ 2226 Anti-immigrant and Anti-family Immigrant Practices ......................................... 2227 A Reverse Migration Trend .................................................................... 2228 Approaching the Families ...................................................................... 2229 The Families ................................................................................. 2229 Gathering the Families’ Narratives ......................................................... 2231 Positionalities ................................................................................... 2232 That Which Was Learned ....................................................................... 2233 Deportation Narratives: “You’re Not Only Sending Me, You’re Sending My Kids” ..... 2233 Obtaining Papeles Through Legalizing Movidas .......................................... 2235 Navigating the Mexican School System .................................................... 2236 Supervivencia as Collective Healing ....................................................... 2238 Conclusion: Healing La Frontera’ s Herida Abierta Through Binational Policies ............ 2239 References ...................................................................................... 2241 Abstract Mixed-status families comprise a growing and (in)visible group of communities on both sides of the US-Mexico border. According to data from the American Immigration Council, 5.9 million US citizen children live with an undocumented parent and are part of mixed-status families (family members with different legal status). It is also estimated that women constitute more than half of all immigrants who are part of the feminization of migration which is tied to the US capitalist economy’ s historical and contemporary dependence on the labor of immigrant women and women of color, with Mexican immigrants comprising the majority of the undocumented immigrants in the USA. Consequently, US-born children S. L. Candel (*) · N. A. Marrun Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA e-mail: sandra.candel@unlv.edu; norma.marrun@unlv.edu © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 R. Papa (ed.), Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14625-2_59 2223