Honduran mom parents from phone
While being separated from her daughters who are in California, Maria, a mom from Honduras, parents from her smartphone Slovíčka
Maria's day begins at 7 a.m., when she rouses her daughters for elementary school, and does not finish until late at night. Like many moms, Maria has found parenthood even harder since the COVID-19 pandemic pushed classes online.
But unlike most other mothers, Maria is raising Michelle, 11, and Nicole, 6, from thousands of miles away. She is in Honduras and they are in California.
U.S. border officials under former President Donald Trump separated Maria from her daughters after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2017 to seek asylum. The girls were sent to a shelter and then released into the custody of their adult older brother, while Maria was deported to Honduras.
The girls were among thousands of children separated from their parents at the southwestern U.S. border under a Trump-era policy that charged parents with criminal immigration offenses, while children were labeled "unaccompanied" and placed in shelters. Many children were released to sponsors, mostly family members, and hundreds of parents were deported without their children.
At the time, Nicole was still breastfeeding and Michelle was 8. Now Nicole has grown into a rebellious second-grader and Michelle's period has arrived.
Within weeks of taking office, President Joe Biden established a task force to reunite children and their parents or guardians separated under Trump's policy, calling such separations a "human tragedy."
Since then, 37 children have been reunited with parents by the task force, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Some 2,100 children may still be separated, although many of these families may have reunited on their own, the department said.
Maria is still waiting to join her daughters. Her lawyers have not yet formally petitioned for her reunification as she needs to gather more personal documents required by the U.S. and Honduran governments before she can leave for the United States.
The case highlights the challenges the Biden administration faces as it works to track down separated parents. The reunification effort has been hampered by the need to obtain travel documents from foreign governments and to process U.S. immigration paperwork, a DHS spokesperson said. Some advocacy groups have pushed the Biden administration to move faster with family reunifications. U.S. officials counter that they are putting a system in place and plan to accelerate later. Conchita Cruz, from the nonprofit Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP), said the task force has been responsive to advocates' concerns and she hopes many of the issues causing delays are being ironed out.
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