Parents who were deported after the administration of President trump has separated thousands of families of migrants who returned to the U.S. to reunite with children whom they had not seen in a year and a half.
A Federal judge found that the U.S. government illegally interfered with migrants in search of asylum. The group arrived at the international airport Los Angeles from Guatemala. Lawyer immigrants confirmed that all nine parents were on Board.
As AP reports, some children were waiting for parents at the airport, including 9-year-old son David Colona Byron. Father fell on one knee and with tears in his eyes hugged Byron about three minutes.
«He was a little boy,’ said a sobbing David. — He has grown.»
It is known that more than 4,000 children were separated from their parents before and during the official start of the zero tolerance spring of 2018. In accordance with this policy the border agents accused the parents of illegally crossing the border between USA and Mexico, and then placed them in state institutions, including «shelter for minors».
Migrant parents separated from kids reunited for first time since 2018 https://t.co/wXozzhGjOe pic.twitter.com/q9RiDIM80u
— New York Post (@nypost) January 23, 2020
«They’re all kind of hit the lottery,’ said Linda Grimm, the attorney representing one of the parents returning to the US. — There are so many people who were traumatized by the politics of division of the family whose pain will not be refunded».
In June 2018, U.S. district judge Dana Sabraw ordered the government to stop the separation of families and to reunite parents and children.
