内容摘要：Associated Press reporter Tammy Webber contributed to this story.

Associated Press reporter Tammy Webber contributed to this story.

U.S.-born children play near a tree as their mothers, who are in the country illegally, meet with Nora Sandigo, who runs a non-profit dedicated to supporting immigrant families, to learn about their legal rights and options to prepare their families in case a parent were to be detained or deported, Jan. 17, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)U.S.-born children play near a tree as their mothers, who are in the country illegally, meet with Nora Sandigo, who runs a non-profit dedicated to supporting immigrant families, to learn about their legal rights and options to prepare their families in case a parent were to be detained or deported, Jan. 17, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

One recent Sunday, she visited four houses and received documents involving over 20 children. In some cases, the childrenand are citizens. The documents do not provide her full legal guardianship or transfer parental rights, but simply allow Sandigo to make decisions on their behalf.Most parents fear if they do not name a legal guardian, their children will enter the foster care system, they will lose their parental rights and someone else will adopt their children.

Julia, reacts as Nora Sandigo talks to her husband after he called from a federal detention center, Feb. 2, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. Julia’s husband was detained by immigration authorities when he was in a van with other immigrants on their way to a construction job. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)Julia, reacts as Nora Sandigo talks to her husband after he called from a federal detention center, Feb. 2, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. Julia’s husband was detained by immigration authorities when he was in a van with other immigrants on their way to a construction job. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Julia, a 36-year-old Guatemalan woman who insisted she be identified only by her first name out of

, waited a few minutes before opening the door for Sandigo as a group of people ran out the back door.A house located next to a rocky mountain on the Navajo Nation, in Steamboat, Ariz., Oct. 11, 2024.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A house located next to a rocky mountain on the Navajo Nation, in Steamboat, Ariz., Oct. 11, 2024.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Posters for both candidates Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump dot rubble roads, often written in Navajo or drawn by hand. In homes that lack basic cellphone signals and even electricity, campaigns have pumped money into radio ads, seeking to reach voters on the furthest fringes of society.

Instead of hosting big rallies, voting activists travel to the far reaches of the reservation, paying the entrance fees to local events like goat roping in exchange for young Navajos registering to vote. Others have ridden across the reservation on horseback to excite voters disillusioned by politics, another push to overcome the distances and historic barriers that have long permeated the reservation.Native wood sculptures adorn the yard of Felix Ashley on the Navajo Nation in Dilkon, Ariz., Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)