If immigration officials catch him some day and he is deported, Angel Estrada, 48, already knows whom he will call, and at what hotel in Mexico he will meet his family before attempting to rebuild his life in his hometown of Cuernavaca.
Estrada's daughter, Karla, 24, who like her father is in the country illegally, has no plans to leave so easily — or quietly.
"If they are going to deport me, they are going to have a very bad taste in their mouth," said Karla, who has lived in the United States since she was 5. "I'm going to call this person, this organization, this lawyer. I'll get on Facebook … Twitter. I'm going to do a media circus. I'm going to stay in this country."
The debate in the Estrada home showcases a generational divide in many Latino homes in California and elsewhere — driven by a national debate over immigration and a steady move in California toward easing restrictions on people in the country illegally.
[For more of this story, written by Cindy Carcamo, go to http://www.latimes.com/local/c...-20150929-story.html]
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