2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The two-year-old Honduran girl who appears in a heartbreaking photo crying inconsolably in front of a Border Patrol agent has been reunited with her mother.
This was confirmed by a spokesman for the United States Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) who revealed that the girl is with her mother. "The mother and daughter were not separated," he said.
The image of the minor, dressed in a pink shirt and pants, captured by Pulitzer Prize winner John Moore, was published by news agencies on June 12. Since then, she has become a kind of icon of the humanitarian crisis that is affecting more than 2,000 children and their families who have been separated when crossing the border between Mexico and the United States.
The photo has been widely circulated on networks and many wondered what the fate of the minor would be, after being separated from her mother at a border crossing of the Rio Grande. “[The mother] was told to leave the girl sitting while they searched her. The girl immediately started crying desperately,”the photographer told NPR. "I took just a few pictures and it almost got me excited," he said of the shocking moment.
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According to the CBP spokesperson, the pair is expected to remain together in a detention center and until the end of their federal court hearings. Children "of tender age," the official explained to the Daily Beast site., "[That is] four years and under" generally remain with their parents.
However, he pointed out, children under the age of five can be separated from their parents if they have a criminal record or if they have previously committed violations of immigration laws. Likewise, CBP can be taken to children if the relationship with the accompanying adult is in doubt.
"[Lack of] sufficient space to accommodate an entire family where both parents are present," he said, or "evidence of abuse indicating that the child's safety is at risk" are also reasons for taking the children.
All of these actions would obey President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, which has generated a wave of outrage and criticism outside and within the United States.
But public pressure seems to have taken its toll on the president, who on Wednesday signed an executive order that would keep families crossing the border together.
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