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Deported Guatemalan Man Desperately Awaits Return Of 9-Year-Old Son From U.S. Custody
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630459410/deported-guatemalan-man-desperately-awaits-return-of-9-year-old-son-from-u-s-cusThe Trump administration has one week left to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite over 2,000 children separated at the border from their families suspected of entering the U.S. illegally.
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He tried to show the officers the Guatemalan police forms he was carrying documenting the death threats. But according to Ramirez, the officer told him that the documents were not valid in the U.S. and that his son would be on the plane with him once he was deported.
Rudy Jr. wasn't on the plane. That was June 14. Ramirez hasn't seen his son. Nor has the boy's mother. She crossed into the U.S. a few days after her husband and son, hoping to reunite with them. She turned herself in to the Border Patrol. She's been in detention in Texas ever since.
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He tried to show the officers the Guatemalan police forms he was carrying documenting the death threats. But according to Ramirez, the officer told him that the documents were not valid in the U.S. and that his son would be on the plane with him once he was deported.
Rudy Jr. wasn't on the plane. That was June 14. Ramirez hasn't seen his son. Nor has the boy's mother. She crossed into the U.S. a few days after her husband and son, hoping to reunite with them. She turned herself in to the Border Patrol. She's been in detention in Texas ever since.