Nine parents who were deported as Trump administration separated thousands of migrant families land back in U.S. to reunite with children they had not seen in a year and a half.
News headlines today: Jan. 22, 2020LOS ANGELES -- Nine parents who were deported as the Trump administration separated thousands of migrant families landed back into the U.S. late Wednesday to reunite with children they had not seen in a year and a half.
The reunion was a powerful reminder of the lasting effects of Trump's separation policy, even as attention and outrage has faded amid impeachment proceedings and tensions with Iran. But it also underscored that hundreds, potentially thousands, of other parents and children are still apart nearly two years after the zero-tolerance policy on unauthorized border crossings took effect.
In June 2018, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the government to stop separating families and reunite parents and children. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the original family separation lawsuit before Sabraw, asked the judge to order the return of a small group of parents whose children remained in the U.S. In September, Sabraw required the U.S. to allow 11 parents to come back and denied relief to seven others.
Two days later, Xol said an officer told him to sign a document that would allow him and Byron to be deported together. If he didn't sign, Byron would be given up for adoption and Xol would be detained for at least two years. Esvin Fernando Arredondo was expected to be on the plane. The father from Guatemala was separated from one of his daughters, Andrea Arredondo — then 12 years old and now 13, after they turned themselves in on May 16, 2018, at a Texas crossing and sought asylum legally, according to Grimm, his lawyer. He failed an initial screening and agreed to go back to Guatemala.
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