John Moore / GettySamantha Suazo, 23, stands to be recognized for magma cum laude honors as her father, Marvin Suazo, and mother, Maribel Vasquez, cheer during a graduation ceremony at Yale University on May 18, 2026, in New Haven, Connecticut. Samantha, originally from Honduras, was naturalized as an American citizen in 2025 and became the first member of her family to graduate from college, receiving a B.A. in sociology and from Yale’s Ethnicity, Race, Migration program. She left Honduras at age 11 with her parents seeking asylum, and the family settled in Big Sky, Montana.John Moore / GettySamantha Suazo and fellow students at Saybrook College graduate from Yale University on May 18, 2026.John Moore / GettySamantha Suazo embraces her father, Marvin, as her mother, Maribel, looks on at Samantha’s graduation ceremony on May 18, 2026. When Marvin first brought his family to the United States in 2014, he established a construction company, and Maribel cleaned homes for local residents in Montana. Samantha and Maribel went through the formal U.S. asylum process, although Marvin was ineligible for asylum due to a previous deportation, and he remained undocumented in the U.S. In early 2026, ICE agents deported six of his construction employees following a raid. Under immense stress, the family made a heartbreaking decision to sacrifice family cohesion: Marvin would self-deport to Honduras following Samantha’s graduation from Yale, and the rest of the family would remain living in the U.S.John Moore / GettySamantha poses with her parents after her graduation ceremony.John Moore / GettySamantha and her parents watch as her sister, Zhoe, 11, does cartwheels during a family visit to the Washington Monument on May 18, 2026, in Washington, D.C. After their decision for Marvin to self-deport to Honduras, the family traveled one last time together, down the East Coast, visiting Washington, D.C., Orlando, and Miami before separating.John Moore / GettySamantha and her family touch the cool marble of the Washington Monument during a family visit to the Capitol on May 20, 2026.John Moore / GettyNational Guard soldiers look on as Honduran immigrants Maribel Vasquez and Marvin Suazo walk past the Washington Monument on May 20, 2026.John Moore / GettyMarvin and his daughter Zhoe hold hands while walking near the White House on May 20, 2026.John Moore / GettyMarvin and his family look through fencing at ongoing construction at the White House while touring the Capitol on May 20, 2026.John Moore / GettySamantha cools off inside an air-conditioned car during a visit with her family and boyfriend to Washington, D.C. on May 20, 2026.John Moore / GettyMarvin and his family visited Universal Volcano Bay water park during their family trip, on May 21, 2026, in Orlando, Florida.John Moore / GettyAn immigrant family, soon to be separated, enjoys a round of drinks on a final family trip on May 24, 2026, in Miami, Florida, a day before Marvin Suazo was to self-deport to Honduras.John Moore / GettyMarvin and his wife, Maribel, speak during their last hours together on May 25, 2026 in Miami, Florida.John Moore / GettyMarvin Suazo cradles his distraught U.S.-born daughter Zhoe at the Miami airport before his flight to Honduras on May 25, 2026.John Moore / GettyZhoe Suazo is comforted by her big sister, Samantha, at the Miami airport, ahead of their father Marvin’s self-deportation flight.John Moore / GettyMarvin Suazo passes through a TSA checkpoint at the Miami airport on May 25, 2026, while self-deporting to Honduras.John Moore / GettyMarvin travels on an American Airlines flight to Comayagua, Honduras, on May 25, 2026.John Moore / GettyMarvin was accompanied on his trip to Honduras by his daughter Samantha.John Moore / GettyAn aerial view of a Catholic church in the village of Lagunas, recently refurbished by remittance money sent from Honduran expats living in the United States, seen on May 27, 2026, near Comayagua, Honduras, Marvin Suazo’s family village.John Moore / GettySamantha Suazo and her father, Marvin, visit extended family in the village of Lagunas on May 25, 2026.John Moore / GettyMarvin helps his mother make tortillas in the village of El Junco. After leaving the U.S., Marvin will be rejoining his extended family, coffee farmers in a mountainous region of central Honduras. With savings from his work in the U.S., he purchased a new home and fields to seed with coffee, and is more financially prosperous than when he left the region with his family a dozen years before.John Moore / GettySamantha Suazo speaks to a class in the school she had attended as a child in the village of Lagunas on May 26, 2026. Samantha, now a naturalized U.S. citizen, will return to New Haven, Connecticut, to work at an immigrant-advocacy non-profit before applying to law school for the 2027 academic year.John Moore / GettyEsteban Suazo, 100, receives a visit from his grandson Marvin in the village of El Junco on May 27, 2026..John Moore / GettyMarvin Suazo plants coffee seedlings at his farm on May 26, 2026, in the village of El Junco.John Moore / GettyMarvin plants coffee seedlings at his farm near Comayagua, Honduras.John Moore / GettyAn aerial view of Marvin and his daughter Samantha standing beside rows of seedlings on his farm, seen on May 26, 2026.John Moore / GettyMarvin Suazo watches as a truckload of coffee-farm workers pass by after he returned to the village of Lagunas on May 26, 2026, near Comayagua, Honduras.
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