Separated families are reunited in US, then deported back to Guatemala
Posted on | July 12, 2018 | 1 Comment
Exhausted and subdued, reunited families return to Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY – Donelda Pulex stepped off the airplane into the sun, clutching her 5-year-old daughter’s hand and burst into heaving sobs. Fourteen-year-old Hermelindo Juarez hid his face as his father comforted him. Efildo Daniel Vasquez walked cautiously behind his 8-year-old son. Quiet, confused and exhausted, 11 families who had been detained and separated after they were caught crossing the U.S. border illegally returned home Tuesday to Guatemala aboard a U.S. government-chartered flight that read “World Atlantic.” Greeted by first lady Patricia Marroquin, they lined up on the tarmac, shuffling – their shoelaces had been taken as a security precaution. U.S. immigration officials handed
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Videography by Barbara Rosenfeld 

July 12th, 2018 @ 4:04 am
Thank you Pres. Trump for starting to re-establish the U.S. southern border and the rule of law, sadly fractured by the usurper for eight years.
Hopefully, the word will get around in Guatemala not to sneak into the U.S. illegally.
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Paula Hoehn