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Months of Family Separation Not Over

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"It's been nearly three months, why don't they want to return my daughter?" said Nazario, a potato farmer from Guatemala who was deported without his daughter.

U.S. Border Patrol agents separated Nazario from his daughter, who was 5-years-old at the time.

Filomena is among the 431 migrant children still in U.S. government custody after their parents or guardians were deported.

NOTE: KQED originally spelled Filomena's name Filemona, as it appeared on a U.S. court document filed by her father. In fact, her name is spelled Filomena and appears that way on her Guatemalan birth certificate.

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