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Reunited immigrant children scooped up into parents’ arms
Ever Reyes Mejia, of Honduras, carries his son to a vehicle after being reunited and released by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Grand Rapids,
Mich., Tuesday, July 10, 2018.
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Lug- ging little backpacks, smil- ing immigrant children were scooped up into their parents’ arms Tuesday as
the Trump administration scrambled to meet a court- ordered deadline to re- unite dozens of youngsters forcibly separated from their families at the border. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, two boys and a girl who
had been in temporary fos- ter care were reunited with their Honduran fathers at a U.S. Immigration and Cus- toms Enforcement center about three months after they were split up.
The three fathers were “just
holding them and hugging them and telling them that everything was ne and that they were never going to be separated again,” said immigration lawyer Abril Valdes.
One of the fathers, Ever
Associated Press
Reyes Mejia, walked out of the ICE center carrying his beaming son and the boy’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur- tles backpack.
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