<p>This study explores how Mexican and Central American parents narrate and live their experiences in a California child welfare court. Based on ethnographic observations of parents’ interactions in court and interviews with parents and child welfare court professionals who worked with them, I argue that parents’ narratives reflected their concerns about long-standing racializing scripts of deficiency rooted in white supremacy, class inequality, and raciolinguistic ideologies that could impact perceptions of them as capable and worthy parents. This article demonstrates how Mexican and Central American parents negotiate and challenge their relationship to poverty, Blackness, whiteness, Indigeneity, and standard language ideologies in their efforts to maintain or regain custody of their children.</p>