Client: 'I came with my son and I鈥檓 leaving with my son'
After a 1,500-mile trek from Honduras, Moises and his 6-year-old son, Carlos, crossed the border together in May.
Immigration officials stopped them near McAllen, Texas. After only a few hours together in custody, immigration officials took the boy without warning to a separate area and placed him in a cage. Moises was handcuffed and taken away, too.
They never had a chance to say goodbye.
Moises is among the thousands of parents separated from their children as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) carries out its 鈥渮ero tolerance鈥� policy for border crossers. (We鈥檝e changed the names of this father and son here to protect their identities.)
I met Moises this week on the other side of a glass partition, in a small meeting room at Stewart Detention Center in the tiny town of Lumpkin, Georgia, some 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. It鈥檚 one of the聽remote places where we鈥檙e representing those who have no other champions.
