For the past 20 years, she has been legal guardian to 2,373 children, whose parents have been deported or are at risk of ...

Nicaraguan American businesswoman Nora Sandigo hugs a girl while holding a baby at her home on the outskirts of Miami. Sandigo welcomes migrant families to her home, providing food, toys and ...

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- For Nora Sandigo, Friday night is playtime with the kids. "You hold her like she's your own," Sandigo said. "I love each one of my children." Her "children" are from so-called ...

"I think of all of my children every second of the day and even in my dreams," Nora Sandigo tells PEOPLE Nora Sandigo answered a frantic knock at the front door of her Miami home in 2009, and six ...

Nora Sandigo is the legal guardian of hundreds of American-born children whose parents are here illegally. Without a guardian, they'd face foster... One Woman, 817 Children: Caring For Kids Of ...

On a hot Sunday afternoon, about 20 kids are saying grace. It’s almost lunch time, and the smell of corn tamales wafts throughout the patio of Nora Sandigo’s home in West Kendall. “Because God, you’re ...

Today in the United States, nearly six million citizen children live with a family member who is undocumented, usually a parent. Maryam Rafieifar started working with undocumented immigrants while she ...

Each of Nora Sandigo’s six phones has a different ringtone, so she can keep track of which one is buzzing. In less than two minutes, nine calls come in. On the other end: desperate immigrant parents ...

Nora Sandigo cares for 1,250 children of undocumented immigrants who are at risk of being detained or deported. Parents who are worried about what may happen to their children if they are detained ...

In November, she had 900. Today: 1,148. That’s how many children consider Nora Sandigo their other mom. Some live as far away as California; others, within her Miami home. They have one thing in ...

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — The day before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a dozen immigrant families came to Nora Sandigo's ranch to ask her to be a legal guardian of their children. Now they are ...

MIAMI — The Great Mother’s phone is ringing. It’s after dark and Nora Sandigo has retreated from a tropical storm into her hacienda-style ranch house on the southern outskirts of Miami. The Nicaraguan ...