Nonparents – grandparents, aunts, older siblings – are routinely separated from migrant youth at the border, despite federal efforts to keep families together, according to immigrant advocates.
Four migrants share their stories of traveling to the US-Mexico border in hopes of being granted asylum.Hilda Hernandez, an asylum-seeker from Honduras, said she fled extortionist gangs in Veracruz, Mexico, and dodged drug cartels in Piedras Negras.
But much of that effort is aimed at reuniting parents with their children and does not address the grandmothers and aunts who routinely arrive at the border with younger relatives, said Casey Revkin, executive director of Each Step Home, a non-profit that helps detained migrant children and their families at the Texas-Mexico border.
“These children have fled unspeakable dangers and traveled thousands of miles with these grandparents,” Revkin said. “To be separated again at the border is just tragic.” Yeni and Maria traveled in buses and stayed in filthy apartments across Mexico before crossing the Rio Grande with a smuggler and turning themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas in December, expecting to be able to apply for asylum together.
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