Nicolas Espinosa’s hopes for his 11-year-old daughter, Julia, are basic and profound: He wants her to stay alive and perhaps be able to eat normally someday. And she might, if she can get three organs transplanted and if the U.S. immigration system doesn’t get in the way. In a case that reflects the significant
Uncertainty is something Nicolas Espinosa, her father, has gotten used to in a country in which there seems to be no rational system to deal with migrant families facing health crises.