community that's putting itself as risk by creating underground safe houses. >> we can't show you where we are or who lives behind this door because the family in this apartment in california is open the run from immigration and customs enforcement. >> this is my mom. status here isn't safe, we had to just pack everything up and just left everything behind. >> reporter: off the grid since last year, both citizens born in the u.s., both in high school. ice deport thard father for illegally crossing the border. their mother overstayed a tourist visa and is also undocumented. girls feared their mother was next. what's happened since then when you to pack up and leave? >> we became homeless for five months. we moved schools. we went somewhere else because we had to leave the city.