The jail where they have taken his wife is very cold and very far away.

In the weeks since immigration agents pulled her off the work bus, she has been in jail and he has kept working at the vegetable farm where they worked together.

She calls him from a detention center in another state and tells him about the cold, how the prisoners complain about the cold but the guards do nothing.

She has fallen into un hueco now, he says — a hollow, a hole, a gray area.

His name is not Carlos, but he doesn’t want his real name published because he doesn’t want to be taken. We sit in his friend’s one-room apartment in an old two-story house in the upstate New York town of Albion, population 7,400. 

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