Honduran sisters in Rochester allege mistreatment at southern border
Now in Minnesota with mom, they detail being held in cage and kicked.
By Maya Rao Star Tribune OCTOBER 13, 2021 — 6:28PM
Two sisters who fled Honduras as teenagers in 2019 are now suing the federal government in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, alleging they were mistreated while detained in a cage and at other sites along the southern border of the United States. Kerlin Sanchez Villalobos, 18, and her younger sister, identified in court documents as Y.S. because she is still a minor at 16, left home to seek asylum and reunite with their mother in Minnesota.
"We wanted to put this lawsuit forward because we thought what happened to us was unjust, and we don't want this to happen to anyone else," said Sanchez Villalobos, who is now living with her mom and sister in Rochester.
The sisters, now a junior and senior in high school, were arrested while crossing the U.S. border on foot and taken to a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) site in Clint, Texas, in June 2019.
That same month, the Associated Press reported that immigration attorneys had determined that hundreds of children there had been locked up "without adequate food, water and sanitation."
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