Earlier this year, Lucy was separated from her 10-year-old daughter, her 18-year-old son and 18-year-old stepson after she fled El Salvador
A Salvadoran mother was separated from her children at the border earlier this year in a case that legal advocates say illustrates the way border policies continue to cause trauma under the Biden administration.
“The reunification that happened was only possible through the help of the attorneys and the organizations,” said Monika Langarica, an attorney with the UC Los Angeles Center for Immigration Law and Policy. “The government agencies are not the ones who facilitated that.” In this June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who’ve been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas.
The letter also asks the administration to do more to keep parents and their adult children together and to keep spouses together whether they have children or not.in July 2021 calling attention to continued family separations under the Biden administration and highlighting the case of a pregnant woman whose partner was separated from her and detained. The man was unable to be with her when she gave birth.
Lucy said she went to wake up her 18-year-old son Anner as the other migrants fled. A Border Patrol agent caught her and began beating her, she said.
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