[header] How to cope with living apart from your children after deportation [title] Expect to feel all sorts of emotions. [step] Being parted from your children for a long-term basis due to deportation is a terrible experience to go through. All of your emotions are normal responses to feeling loss and you will be experiencing grief. 
You may experience anger, resentment, sadness, loneliness, depression, fear and many other feelings. There is no time limit on your grief, some days will be much harder than others.