Sh*t's getting real! They don't call it REAL Housewives for nothin'!

Teresa Giudice is opening up in this new video about her estrange husband Joe's potential deportation following his prison sentence. She's telling the world, in an appeal for Joe to be allowed to stay in the U.S., "If he gets deported, he’ll never be able to go to their graduation[s], celebrate their birthdays, anything. He’s going to be missing out on so much.”

She went on to say the couple's daughters Gia, 18, Gabriella, 14, Milania, 13, and Audriana, 9, shouldn't have to be without their dad: “The girls adore their father and no child should have to go through what my daughters are going through. They should have their daddy here.”

The couple's had their share of rough times -- the family, for that matter ... the kids were without their mom for 11 months in 2015 when Teresa served time for fraud, including mail, wire and bankruptcy. Joe just finished his 41-month sentence for the same crimes and is now in ICE custody.

“When you’re a mom and your children are hurting, it just kills you so much,” Teresa said in the video posted to Bravo Insider. “If I could take any of this pain away from them, I wish I could.”