RAYMORE, MO. ? Family and friends of a 32-year-old Missouri mother couldn’t hold back tears Wednesday night as they prepared for Myrna Dick and her family to leave the country.

Dick married an American citizen, gave birth to her son in the United States and has lived the last several years on a cul-de-sac in this Kansas City suburb.

But she is scheduled to be deported Saturday because federal appeals courts have ruled she lied about her citizenship when crossing the border illegally from her native Mexico.

Now, as Congress readies for another round of immigration debates, Dick said her plight shows why reforms should take into account the welfare of American children whose parents entered the U.S. without papers.

“I’m not the only one who’s going to leave. There are lots of families who have the same issue as myself,” an emotional Dick said as she held her 19-month-old son in her driveway. “I still have hope that somebody’s going to make a call and say come back.”

Dick’s lawyers appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court last week and are hoping she will be given extra time in the country while justices consider whether to hear the case.

That happened in 2004, when she was pregnant and a federal judge allowed her to stay because he said her fetus essentially was a U.S. citizen. But without a new stay of deportation from either the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where the case was last filed, or from the Supreme Court, the young family will leave Saturday – for good.

A spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said there was nothing to suggest any new information would stop or delay her deportation.

“If the Supreme Court grants it a stay, that’s the highest court in the land, so that’s what we would abide by,” agency spokesman Carl Rusnok said. “But our job is to enforce immigration law and that’s what we’re doing in this case.”