The Latest: Baby didn't initially know parents at reunion

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 7:20 pm CDT, Friday, July 20, 2018



SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — The Latest on a family reuniting in Honduras after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local):

5:05 p.m.

A baby who came to symbolize the U.S. government's policy of separating immigrant families didn't recognize his parents at first when they reunited in Honduras.

Adalicia Montecinos cried Friday, saying her son, Johan, "suffered everything that we have been suffering."

The 15-month-old boy arrived in Honduras five months after being separated from his father at the Texas border. Johan's father was deported and the boy remained in U.S. custody at an Arizona shelter.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest-Baby-reunites-with-family-in-Honduras-13092307.php

[ellie]

1. This makes me cry

How in the hell does the GOP come back from being pro-locking children in cages?

[Judi Lynn]

2. Honduran baby reunited with parents after border separation didn't recognize them at first

AP July 20, 2018, 8:04 PM

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras -- A year-old boy who became a poster child for the U.S. policy of separating immigrants and their children was back in the arms of his parents Friday, five months after he was taken from his father at the U.S. border. Johan Bueso Montecinos arrived in San Pedro Sula and was reunited with his parents.

But he didn't recognize them at first.

. . .

Montecinos said she could not be happier to have her son back in her arms but she also is angry that she was kept from her 15-month-old son for five months.

Captured by Border Patrol agents almost instantly upon arrival, Johan's father was deported - and the 10-month-old remained at an Arizona shelter, in the custody of the U.S. government. Over the next five months, he would take his first steps, speak his first words, have his first birthday; his parents, hundreds of miles away, would miss it all.

More:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/johan-bueso-montecinos-honduran-baby-reunited-with-parents-after-border-custody-dispute-2018-07-20/

[Glimmer of Hope]

3. Five months?

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. and crucial months at that.

Horrendously appalling.

i have started thinking in terms of actual evil, a word that is too much and too lightly used, until now.

[LakeArenal]

4. I hate him so much. Didn't think I could.

But I do.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Family, home still unfamiliar to Honduran baby

Julie Watson, Associated Press
Updated 9:24 pm CDT, Saturday, July 21, 2018

LA LIBERTAD, Honduras (AP) — Baby Johan spent his first day home chasing his family's kitten, bouncing to music and playing like any 15-month-old boy.

But his mom said Saturday he also seemed lost in his own home — not recognizing his favorite aunt and only able to sleep with the lights on after spending five months in U.S. custody forcibly separated from his parents.

"We have to give him time, be patient," his mother, Adalicia Montecinos said with a tired smile after her first night back with her son, who only slept for a few hours.

He also seemed to be speaking words that his mom figured were likely in English.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Suffering-ends-with-Honduran-baby-back-in-13094495.php