Immigrant families remain separated, with no end to pain in sight
HOUSTON — As the U.S. government said it had reunited every immigrant family it could, Josefina Ortiz Corrales remained in an immigration detention center and her adopted son in the care of her elder daughter.
Paulina Gutierrez was in her hometown in Guatemala, earning less than $2 a day preparing strings for candle wicks while praying for the quick return of her 7-year-old daughter from government custody in Arizona. She cries every night as she thinks about her decision to agree to be deported in the mistaken belief that the girl would come home with her.
Hundreds of families remain separated a day after Thursday’s court-ordered deadline, with no reunification in sight.