Rachel Gerod
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Appearances Over Time
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It's being called the miracle on Mount Everest.
Six days without food, water or oxygen.
Local expeditioners say they believe that no one has survived at that altitude alone in those conditions before.
Rachel Gerod's a lawyer in Baltimore.
From the full-length glass windows of her 21st floor offices, she has a distant view of the tragic site.
Rachel still remembers the day the Dali container ship struck the city's iconic bridge.
In the aftermath, President Biden encouraged around 30 of the relatives of those who died to apply for humanitarian immigration relief, with assurances their applications would be approved.
One of the victims was 37-year-old Jose Mignol Lopez, originally from Guatemala.
And it's in Rachel's office where we meet Zoila Sandoval-Guerrera, his former partner and co-parent to their seven-year-old daughter, Daini.
Zoila remembers their last conversation.
I was cooking.
And mixed in with her grief, uncertainty.
The Trump administration's reversed President Biden's reprieve.
It means Zoila, who crossed into the US illegally from Guatemala two decades ago, is facing deportation with a hearing in July.
In the corner of Rachel's office, Daini's drawing and colouring with felt pens.
What would this mean for your daughter, who was obviously born here?
She would stay alone.
The Trump administration pledged to deport the worst of the worst from America.
But Zoyle is keen to point out that she's not a threat to national security and that she's built a life in America over years.