"My heart is broken. Anything happen to him now, I don't know what to do."

This woman is worried immigration officials will deport her husband. They don't want us to use their names or say where in New York City they live. In fact, he was scared sick and wouldn't leave his home.

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We met her in her lawyer's office, where he gave her advice for this weekend: "Don't sign any papers, don't open the door. Call me."

"It's very hard, very hard. If he goes, what am I going do?" the woman said. "For four kids, it's not easy."

Her children ages 4 to 16 are all American-born, so they're U.S. citizens. But because the couple missed a filing deadline, the federal government gave her only a limited form of asylum and immigration court issued her husband a final order of removal.

It's people like him that will reportedly be targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this weekend. She fears that could mean a death sentence for her children.

"I don't want them to kill my kids," she said.

They moved from Mali's capital city of Bamako nearly 20 years ago after she was a victim of female genital mutilation. Her eldest daughter, who was a teenager, was kidnapped and mutilated as well, but she didn't make it — she bled to death. Now the mother is worried about her daughters here, who are teenagers as well.

"I can't go back, away from my kids. I don't want them to kill them over there," the mother said."I can't go back, away from my kids. I don't want them to kill them over there," the mother said. "Even going now, they're going to do it. It doesn't matter how aged you are, they'll do it."

"In an ideal world, the United States government would look at this family — no criminal activity, hard-working, the female, the wife, subjected to female genital mutilation, her oldest child killed during that mutilation process, two American citizen children who are at risk of female genital mutilation if they return — would look at that family and say, 'Stay here, don't deport this family,'" immigration attorney Edward Cuccia said.

That's not the case. And now, like many families across the city, they'll be spending several days, starting Sunday, locked in their apartments, hoping and praying there won't be a knock on the door.

NY1 reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment on the reports of the enforcement action Sunday and have not heard back.