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For a Houston Family, ICE crackdown shatters the good life they knew
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Story by Olivia P. Tallet</div>
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Multimedia by Marie D. De Jes&uacute;s</div>
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<p>Juan Rodr&iacute;guez was pulled from the shadows more than a decade ago. Then life began to revolve around meetings with federal authorities.</p>
<p>Twenty-five times, he and his family went in and came back out. But this last time, they knew.</p>
<p>&quot;This time was going to be different,&quot; Celia Rodr&iacute;guez recalled, her right hand pressing against her chest, the left one hurrying to cover her face as a delicate cascade of tears fell.</p>
<p>Celia doesn&#39;t like her daughters to see her that way, so she doesn&#39;t make any noise when she cries. The girls, Karen, Rebecca and Kimberly, were squeezed next to her on a loveseat in the den.</p>
<p>The house fell quiet.</p>
<p>It&#39;s a spacious home near the University of Houston in a majority Latino neighborhood. At the front, manicured grass gives way to a line of sages and young pink velour myrtles, a Texas favorite because they always bloom this time of the year, no matter the heat. Light filters in from the back of the house, and clean floors glow like mirrors.</p>
<p>Juan broke the silence cautiously, patting his wife&#39;s back. Then he looked into Celia&#39;s eyes. &quot;Vamos, vamos &hellip; ,&quot; come on, he said one night last week. They didn&#39;t have much time to tell their story.</p>
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<p class="caption">Juan Rodr&iacute;guez and his family - wife Celia and daughters Karen, Kimberly and Rebecca - have built a life in Houston. That could change at month&#39;s end because Juan has been ordered to turn himself in to be deported to El Salvador. </p>
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