Foreign Correspondent - Road to Reunion (OMG Barforama Alert)

ABC AU ^ | 6/3/2021 | Sarah Ferguson (not the Brit)

[Oshkalaboomboom]

In a world TV exclusive, Sarah Ferguson reports on the fallout of a brutal US immigration policy that tore families apart. She tracks the journey of one mother seeking to reunite with her children after four painful years alone.

"I begged them to please not take my mum. I told them that it would be better if they deported us to Mexico instead of separating her from me, but they told me...that I had to say goodbye."

It was condemned as cruel and inhumane. But before the US courts struck it down, Trump's policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border did its work. Over 5000 children were removed. While many children stayed in the US, hundreds of parents were deported.

Four years later, some families are finding each other again.

In a Foreign Correspondent exclusive, Sarah Ferguson tells the powerful story of the first family to reunite since President Biden took office.

The family of Honduran mother Keldy Gonzales Brebe was one of the first to be caught up in a secretive US immigration program run in 2017. Its aim was to deter would-be migrants by separating parents from children.

When Keldy crossed the US border into New Mexico in 2017, immigration officials separated her from her two sons, aged 13 and 15.

"From there I lost so many things from not seeing my children. I lost seeing their adolescence. I couldn't be with them for four years," Keldy tells Foreign Correspondent.

For four years, Keldy marked time in Mexico. Then, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), she received the news she'd been waiting for.

We follow Keldy from Mexico to Philadelphia, where her children now live, for the unforgettable scenes of mother and child reunion.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

So now not only are they letting illegals stay they are importing more to "bring families together"

BTW, this is ABC Australia. Don't they have one of the toughest immigration policies in the world? Are they the country that ships people trying to get into their country off to some remote island? Not the best people to be lecturing Americans on immigration, IMHO.

[Steven Tyler]

Meanwhile at the northern border, Justin from Canada has extended the border closure to July 21.
Cannot cross the border for business
Cannot cross border to see family and friends
Cannot cross border to visit your vacation property

and the dims write angry tweets
https://twitter.com/RepBrianHiggins/status/1405905134736003077

[sauropod]

True dat