American Civil Liberties Union<\/a> attorney representing the family, the mother and child fell into each other\u2019s arms crying in a moment of tremendous emotion upon meeting after so much time apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMs. L., from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoke: \u201cIt has been such a painful time. I am so grateful to be with my daughter again. I want to thank all the people who supported me and my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two had fled the DRC with a \u201ccredible fear\u201d of returning home, according to their ACLU attorney. After successfully presenting all the required documents, immigration officials decided to jail the woman on the mistaken belief that the girl wasn\u2019t her child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there were no allegations of abuse or neglect, the mother\u2019s detention was never explained and no DNA test was done at the time to confirm that S.S. was Ms. L.\u2019s child. Only after the lawsuit and pressure from the Chicago Tribune and other news organizations was the mother released from the facility in San Diego. Only after the lawsuit and media coverage was a DNA test performed, a test that confirmed the two are mother and child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At a rally in downtown Chicago, Lee Gelernt of the ACLU Immigrant Rights Project, said, the ACLU believes the Trump administration is intentionally separating asylum-seeking families to deter other asylum seekers from coming to America. The ACLU has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that hundreds of families like Ms. L. and S.S. have been separated, including a Brazilian mother and child, with the mother being held in Texas and the 14-year-old boy detained in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat is a horrific, horrific thing, and we need to stop it,\u201d Gelernt said. \u201cThis is just the start. We\u2019ve expanded our lawsuit because we have seen that hundreds of little kids are sitting apart from their families.\u201d [IDN-InDepthNews \u2013 20 March 2018]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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