Leu Babaeuski, his wife, Volha and their daughters fled Belarus from possible persecution, hoping to receive protection in the United States. Instead, the family, after two years of living in Texas, found themselves in the center of an immigration trap: an American court unexpectedly dismissed their case, stripping them of their status, and the immigration police arrested Leu and Volha right in court. Now the parents are in different prisons, and the children — 22-year-old Victoria and 11-year-old Euhenia — are with relatives, awaiting a decision that could stretch for years. Leu's brother, Raman Babaeuski, told Belsat about how repression in Belarus and the strengthening of US immigration policy turned out to be a tragedy for one family. The founder of the ByAction.org initiative, Yauhen Zhdanovich, notes that the story of the Babaeuskis is only part of a much broader problem that more and more Belarusians in the United States are facing today.