Young Migrant Girl Reunited with Family in Guatemala After Months-Long Separation

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NPR

Farida Jhabvala Romero
Published on Aug 7



Filomena, 5, embraces her mom, Marcela, at a shelter in Guatemala City as her brother, Marvin, watches. (Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)


A 5-year-old Guatemalan girl, who spent almost three months in U.S. government custody at a shelter in New York after being separated from her father at the California border, was finally returned to her parents Tuesday in Guatemala City.

Filomena's parents, Nazario and Marcela, hugged their little girl and cried at a child welfare home run by a Guatemalan government agency. Their daughter arrived in the capital on a commercial flight, along with several other children sent home by U.S. immigration authorities. (KQED is not disclosing their last names because the parents are concerned for the family's safety).

"It was very difficult to be separated like that," said Nazario, 32. "I feel happy again to have her with us."

Nazario has been trying to regain custody of Filomena ever since May 12, when, he said, two Border Patrol agents took her from his arms in a San Diego County holding facility. The father and daughter were one of almost 3,000 families separated as a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, announced in April, to prosecute all unauthorized immigrants arrested at the border.

Read more: https://www.kqed.org/news/11685525/young-migrant-girl-reunited-with-family-in-guatemala-after-forcible-separation

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Bless Filomena and her loved ones, and all people without political power.

[SunSeeker]

1. Finally released from the cage Trump put her in.

Sadly, Trump still has around 500 more still caged.

[pazzyanne]

2. I cry every time I read about the children in cages who are suffering every day.

I hang my head in shame that this is happening in my country, perpetuated the vilest administration to ever exist in the US. The fact that there is no way to rein in the despicable acts of tRump and gang is a stain on our democratic republic that must be corrected for future generations so Americans do not have to live through the hell this man and his cabal are creating.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. "a stain on our democratic republic that must be corrected for future generations"

Those future generations will have to be fixed as well.

1/3 of the future US population will have been raised by Nazis.