A parent’s nightmare at the U.S. border
by Haley Sweetland Edwards
Jun 25, 2018
3 minutes
EARLIER THIS YEAR, A YOUNG HONDURAN woman named Mirian gathered her 18-month-old son into her arms and walked across the bridge between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, where she presented herself to U.S. border agents to ask for asylum. Mirian and her son spent the night in a detention facility. The next day, officials told her to put her son into a car seat in the back of a government vehicle. Her hands shook as she buckled him in. The officials wouldn’t tell her where they
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