2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
More than a month had passed since Blessed Mariana de Jesús Mejía-Mejía had seen her 7-year-old son Darwin. She and her son were separated at an immigration detention center in Arizona days after crossing the border between the United States and Mexico.
This week, the 38-year-old Guatemalan mother sued various government agencies and senior Trump administration officials, asking a federal judge to order the authorities to release her son and managed to get him back.
Lawyers announced in court Thursday that an agreement had been reached a few minutes before a hearing began in the high-profile case. A few hours later, Darwin was released from a shelter in Phoenix, Arizona, and headed to Washington, where his mother had traveled to present her case in federal court.
Early Friday morning, the mother met her son accompanied by his legal team. The heartbroken mother ran to her son the moment she saw him and began to cry.
A video broadcast on Facebook that has gone viral shows the mother and her son in a waiting area at the Baltimore / Washington International Airport. Full of emotion she wraps a blanket around her, cradles her son in her arms and asks for forgiveness.
Mejía told CNN that she and her son came to the United States seeking asylum, fleeing death threats and domestic violence from her husband in Guatemala. They crossed the border on May 19 near San Luis, Arizona, according to the lawsuit, and were immediately boarded by Border Patrol agents and taken into custody.
In her lawsuit, she accused US officials of violating her rights when her son was taken days later.
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