Letty Stegall speaks on a video call with her daughter Jennifer Tadeo-Uscanga, 17, from her parents' home in Boca Del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico.

Stegall, who lived in the United States for 20 years, was deported back to Mexico in March, leaving behind an American husband and daughter.

Her deportation means she could be banned from the U.S. for a decade. She prays paperwork seeking to validate her return through her marriage could wind through the system within two years, but there is no guarantee.

For now, she is a stranger in the vaguely familiar land she left as a 21-year-old in 1999, her phone and laptop the only windows to a life that's no longer hers.