“They had nightmares, they weren’t able to sleep, they experienced intrusive thoughts, traumatic recollections and the inability to concentrate on anything else except when am I going to see my child again? And no one was giving them right information,” Blanco said. “And now we’re asking these women to participate in the advocacy that was going to get them asylym, an impossible task, and all you can think of is: ‘They told me my baby now belongs to the government.’”