TEL AVIV: In the heat of the summer, Sivan Noel and her sister Michal say they rarely venture outside of their family’s small, basement apartment in Tel Aviv.

The two girls, 11 and 9, risk being deported to the family’s home country, the Philippines, even though they’ve never set foot there.

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