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    Border Protection Disputes Account Of 3-Year-Old Asked To Choose Between Parents

    Customs and Border Protection officials are denying an NPR report that a Border Patrol agent asked the girl to choose which of her parents would be sent back to Mexico.
    by Robert Moore Jul 18, 2019 2 minutes
    Tania and her husband, Joseph, initially had to stay just across the border in Mexico under a Trump administration program that requires thousands of people to wait in northern Mexico cities while their immigration cases are heard in U.S. courts.

    Customs and Border Protection officials are denying that a Border Patrol agent asked a 3-year-old girl to choose which of her parents would be sent back to Mexico.

    A Honduran couple named Tania and Joseph told them last week that the family would be separated – one parent would go to Mexico and the other would be allowed to

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