SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - On Monday evening, Perla Avalos, 46, stood at a music stand in a small rehearsal room, practicing lines from a monologue of a local immigrant woman.

Reading through round tortoise shell glasses, Avalos took on the voice of a woman whose son had been charged with a DUI after a party and subsequently detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Since then, he’d been transferred to ICE facilities in Texas and Colorado. Despite him being a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient, the woman feared her son would be deported to Mexico.

“En este momento no tenemos esperanzas de que salga,” Avalos recited. We currently have no hope for his release .

As Avalos spoke, her castmates in Voces de Inmigración 2 listened from a row of conference chair

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