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Video Shows 6-Year-Old Girl Heard On ProPublica Tape Reunited With Mother

After being separated from her mother, Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid asked authorities to call her aunt — she'd memorized the number. Now ProPublica has published video of her back with her mom.
A screenshot from a ProPublica video shows Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid after reuniting with her mother, Cindy, at an airport in Houston.

Alone in a Border Patrol detention facility, separated from her mother, 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid knew what she had to do.

She had to persuade somebody — anybody — to call her aunt. She knew the number by heart, she said,

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