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.
by Camila Domonoske
Jul 13, 2018
1 minute
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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