A Fatal Ending for a Family Forced Apart by Immigration Law

New York Times
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: February 11, 2010

WEST BABYLON, N.Y. — Elizabeth Drummond was a single mother from a hardscrabble family whose roots go back to the Mayflower and an American Indian tribe.

The man she married, Segundo Encalada, was a relative newcomer to the United States, sent illegally by his parents from Ecuador when he was 17.

Elizabeth Encalada’s late husband, Segundo Encalada, in family photos with their children.

He soon became “Daddy Segundoâ€