A 6-year-old girl who came to America claiming asylum with her aunt is being kept from the woman, her only living family.
, involving a six-year-old girl and her 23-year-old aunt and primary care giver, María, is one of these heartbreaking stories.
María tells The Guardian that the decision is “depressing” because “it prolongs her separation from the child.” She also revealed that she speaks regularly with her niece who does not want to be apart from her any longer. The paper points out that María’s case stands out, as dozens of people have tried to help, to no avail. From American volunteers who obtained copies of official birth and death certificates in order to establish the relationship between the two and to prove her relatives were violently murdered, to finding her pro bono attorneys, no amount of support has been enough to reunite the two. They even helped find her niece up north in the foster system.
ICE is “causing further pain, trauma, mental, physical, spiritual health issues that will extend far beyond just this moment in time,” explained the Rev James Pennington of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Phoenix. “It is beyond cruel especially at this time of Christmas.”.
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