A migrant mom says her son still has nightmares and told her, “I don’t want us to be separated again, we don’t want to be alone without you.'
she said. They had come to the U.S. border in May and were seeking asylum after the family faced repeated death threats in their home country.
Even after their reunion in July, Maria Gloria fell into a deep depression, barely slept and lost a significant amount of weight because of the separation, she said.“I was spending so many days so sad, crying, when my children would ask me things all I could do was cry,” Maria Gloria, who asked that their last name not be used out of concern for her family's privacy, said in Spanish.
Maria Gloria and her sons Franklin, 11, and Byron, 7, are from Honduras and currently seeking asylum.The harrowing images of distraught children and terrified migrant parents that eventually culminated in the administration stopping the policy last summer were indicative of something else, too — the shifting nature of who was coming to the U.S. border.
The administration has said border apprehensions were trending towards 100,000 last month and unaccompanied children now make up 60 percent of migrants apprehended along the southwest border. He said such investments could include holding spaces for families after they first come to the U.S., officers and others that are needed to process asylum claims in the U.S. immigration court system.
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