Agatha Joseph: A mother's battle to get her daughter out of detention

How does a mother feel when her child could be exiled forever? Agatha Joseph, unfortunately knows this all too well. She and her 16-year-old daughter were green card holders who had made their lives in the United States. Everything changed when her daughter smoked a joint and got into trouble. But when they paid the fine, they thought their troubles were over.

When her daughter came back from a vacation in the Carribean years later, she faced mandatory detention and deportation proceedings for the same marijuana violation she received when she was younger.

Agatha fought for years to get her youngest child out of detention. Watch her heartbreaking story.

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