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A Guatemalan family living in Edmonton is set to be torn apart and deported.

The family signed papers of their deportation Tuesday morning at an immigration office in Edmonton. On July 10, the family’s four youngest children will return to the United States where they have citizenship. The parents and oldest son will be deported back to Guatemala two days later, the difference in dates to allow the parents to say goodbye to their children.

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“There are people looking out for us (in Guatemala) who want us to die,” said Jilmar David Picon through a friend, Adriana Hernandez, who acted as a translator Tuesday. “That’s what we were running away from.”

Picon, his wife Yolanda Duarte Martinez and his oldest son, Edison, will return to a town near the Central American country’s western border with Mexico.

“I was beaten by the gang members and I was shot at,” Picon said about why he fears for his life in Guatemala.