https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/deported-with-their-children-left-behind-mothers-hope-to-be-reunited-years-later
Judy Woodruff talks with mothers seperated from their children at the US border & then deported
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Judy Woodruff)
President Biden is expected to sign a series of executive orders on immigration this week, including one setting up a task force to reunite families separated at the Mexican border under former President Trump's zero tolerance policy.
We connected with two mothers in Central America who have been waiting years to be reunited with their children. We begin with one of their daughters, who is now living in the U.S.
To protect identity, we don't show her face.
Amna Nawaz:
It's Saturday morning, and that means horseback riding lessons for Maria. Her life today is a world away from the life she left behind.
In August of 2017, she and her mother fled violence in El Salvador after local gangs threatened to kill Maria, a name that we're using to protect her identity.
Maria and her mother requested asylum at the U.S. border, but, like thousands of other families at the time, were separated by U.S. officials under a Trump administration policy. Maria was 12. Her mother was deported, and Maria was left behind.
Maria (through translator):
She was sent to El Salvador, and I stayed here. I didn't know anything about all this at the time.
Amna Nawaz:
More than 2,000 miles away, her mother, Yeni, remembers the last time she saw her daughter.
Yeni (through translator):
The idea was to protect her, not make her suffer. I cried to the officer. I cried and told her: "I don't want to be separated from my daughter. I don't want to be separated."
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