Tania Contreras stands outside the apartment building where she lives with her children, 16-year-old Maryori Urbina Contreras, 13-year-old Diana Ruiz and 8-year-old Valeria Ruiz, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, in Waukegan, Ill. Maryori is one of 68,000 unaccompanied children who flooded across the southwest border of the United States, causing a humanitarian crisis in 2014. She had risked everything when she left Honduras and traveled alone across more than 1,500 miles, in a desperate attempt to escape the gang violence of her homeland and reunite with her mother, who has been in the country since 2001. In 2015, an immigration court judge postponed a final hearing for Maryori until February 2018, when the family will hear if she is granted asylum and allowed to remain with them in the United States.