From the AC360 blog comes the heart breaking story of a Palestinian family that has been targeted for deportation by ICE. Both parents and the oldest son are eligible for deportation, while five other children in the family are U.S. citizens.

“Please help us, there is no country greater than this country,” is Mohammad Mohammad’s plea to the American people. That’s his message spoken by cell phone to me as the handyman drove from Alabama to Louisiana to pick up his wife and 18-year-old son, Imad, from an immigration detention center. Federal officials have declared all three illegal immigrants. All three, who have no passports, no traveling documents, are now worried they will be deported.

But the case gets more complicated because Mohammad and his wife, Sana Alsayed have five other children, ages 5, 6, 13, 14 and 17. They were born in the U.S. They are 5 U.S. citizens. And they could remain in the country while their oldest sibling and parents do not.

The irony here is that because the three family members are Palestinian (who have no right of return), if they are deported, they would probably be sent to Saudi Arabia or Jordan rather than Israel.

What is a family that is made homeless through colonialism supposed to do? Where are they supposed to go? It’s an answer I have yet to hear answered by anti-immigration forces.