Honduran Families Traumatized By US-imposed Separations
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published August 17, 2018 | 10:57 AM
Since being returned to his parents in Honduras, 16-month-old Johan has suffered from stomach problems and sleepwalking.
La Libertad, El Salvador, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Aug, 2018 ) :Since being returned to his parents in Honduras, 16-month-old Johan has suffered from stomach problems and sleepwalking.
They say the symptoms come from the trauma of being separated as a result of the US government's "zero tolerance" policy against migrant families who illegally cross the country's southern border.
Rolando Bueso, 37, and Johan, then aged 10 months, were intercepted by US Border Patrol officers on March 17 after crossing from Mexico into Texas with the help of a people-smuggler, who was paid $6,000.
They were soon split up and sent to detention centers in different states, with the infant becoming just one of 2,000 Central American and Mexican children that US authorities forcibly removed from their parents between April 19 and May 31 this year.
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