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That’s the American way.’[/pullquote]“The personal injury … in some cases it was physical harm, it’s emotional distress because we ripped their children from them,” said Carol Anne Donohoe, managing attorney for the Family Reunification Project at Al Otro Lado, a California-based immigrant rights organization. “There’s nothing that will ever make that OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not money can undo the harm caused by the separations, Donohoe says, the families are entitled to pursue the legal remedy available under the U.S. justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have every right to file a claim like you or I would,” she said. “You know, you’re harmed, you sue. That’s the American way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Donohoe points out that the migrant parents who have been reunited with their kids in the U.S. may have a real need for those funds right now. 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President Biden called it a “moral and national shame.” And settlement talks proceeded quietly behind closed doors for several months — until October, when The Wall Street Journal \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-in-talks-to-pay-hundreds-of-millions-to-immigrant-families-separated-at-border-11635447591?page=1\">broke the story\u003c/a> that financial compensation amounts could reach as high as $450,000 per person in some cases.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nAt that point, the negotiations became a political liability for Biden and his administration, who came under fire by Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers representing families who’d been torn apart, have insisted most settlement amounts would be far lower. But the story generated enormous outrage among GOP members, who tried to link the issue to the soaring number of arrests at the southern border. 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They also say the government could easily wind up spending even more money fighting these cases than if it had simply reached a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Women’s Refugee Commission condemned the Justice Department’s move to pull out of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This move is a shameful, profound betrayal of the government’s responsibility to redress the harms of this heinous policy,” Katharina Obser, director of the group’s Migrant Rights and Justice program, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the U.S. can never undo what happened, we expected the Biden administration to engage in good faith with efforts for redress and repair,” she said, adding that “the cruelty of intentionally tearing families apart inflicted unspeakable and permanent trauma on children and their parents coming to the U.S. border seeking safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathryn Hampton, deputy director of the Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Program, also noted the long-term effects of the separation on children. 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"content": "\u003cp>There are reminders of José Luis Ruiz Arévalos everywhere in the three-bedroom trailer where his wife and four children live in the small Central Valley city of Los Baños: the family photos along the hallway, the triple bunk bed he built to accommodate a growing family, the fence he installed out front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez\"]‘There’s like this space where he used to be, but he’s not there anymore.’[/pullquote]But Ruiz Arévalos isn’t there. After he was forced to stay in Mexico two years ago, the college plans for the three oldest children have unraveled. The oldest dropped out of college and joined the U.S. Army Reserve. The second oldest is prioritizing work while studying. And their younger brother, a senior in high school, caught the eye of Harvard recruiters but instead is considering vocational school closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s like this space where he used to be, but he’s not there anymore,” said Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, 19. “And like, every time you come home, you’re just like, ‘Oh, I feel like something’s missing.’ You always feel that someone’s missing, that he’s missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888939 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family of six, with the parents sitting on the couch and four children standing behind, most smiling at the camera.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armanda Ruiz (front left) with her husband, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos, and children Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, and Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May 2019, Ruiz Arévalos — also known as José, Dad or Papa, depending on whom you ask — went to Mexico for what he thought would be the final step to apply for his green card: an interview at the U.S. Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his family — the rest of whom all are U.S. citizens — expected he would be able to come back in a week or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was unexpectedly refused a green card when U.S. Consulate officials decided that under Trump administration guidance he was likely to become a “public charge,” dependent on government services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to the U.S., he remains in Hermosillo, Sonora, a thousand miles from his family, while he tries to appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-business-f440cbe61eb642c99f4d9a47e437c526\">changes to the “public charge” immigration policy made headlines\u003c/a> the year of Ruiz Arévalos’s green card interview in 2019. What was less publicized is that in January 2018, the Trump administration had already made changes to the public charge policy at consulates outside the country.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe changes gave consulate officers more discretion to scrutinize applicants’ age, education, job skills, and health insurance and whether they or their family members received any type of public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/annual-reports/report-of-the-visa-office-2019.html\">consulate officials refused almost 21,000 people applying for immigrant visas\u003c/a> based on the revised public charge policy. That was seven times as many people as had been refused under the same policy two years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes that were made have now been reversed under President Joe Biden. But the effects still remain, not only for immigrants, but also for their spouses and children. When Ruiz Arévalos couldn’t return home, it triggered economic hardship and emotional grief for his wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also disrupted the education of his oldest stepchild, Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elena, 21, dropped out of the University of California, Merced so she could work to support the family. The decision was gut-wrenching and scary. Elena thought she might never return to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos had been helping her pay for her college expenses not covered by financial aid with his income as a handyperson. Without his help, not only could she not afford to stay in school, but she also needed to help the rest of her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 767px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888944 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white T-shirt and jeans holds hands with an 11-year-old girl, amid pink and white balloons and decorations.\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1.jpg 767w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Luis Ruiz Arévalos dances with daughter Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, at her birthday party in Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Armanda Ruiz, has a full-time job taking care of her little sister, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, 11, who was born prematurely and has had four surgeries and multiple health issues her entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priscila has developmental delays and is under continuous medical care with speech, occupational and physical therapy. Her other two siblings, Ignacio and Nathan, were still in high school at the time Ruiz Arévalos was told he could not return from Mexico. Nathan had been struggling with severe depression. Elena felt she had no other choice but to drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Counselors usually advised me to, like, try to stay in school, but they didn’t really understand that I was the only one that was able to work,” Elena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one other thing motivating her decision: If she stayed in college, she reasoned, the burden to support the family would fall on her younger siblings. She wanted them to follow their dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/mwGywQnW88s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oldest three have always excelled in school. Nathan, 19, got A’s and B’s at Merced College last year. Ignacio, 17, just finished his junior year at Los Baños High School with a 4.6 grade point average — all A’s, including four in Advanced Placement classes. He recently received a letter from Harvard, encouraging him to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I just want to provide for my family and keep ourselves from sinking into debt,” Elena said. “With my dad out of the country and with no family but ourselves, I don’t want the lack of money to be the reason why my siblings don’t go where they want to go and get their degree in what they want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Elena applied for dozens of jobs. She worked at a tomato-packing plant, at Big 5 Sporting Goods as a cashier, and with the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez\"]‘Right now I just want to provide for my family and keep ourselves from sinking into debt … I don’t want the lack of money to be the reason why my siblings don’t go where they want to go.’[/pullquote]Then the coronavirus pandemic hit California, and work became even harder to find. Determined to continue toward a college degree, she began taking classes at Merced College. As the months dragged on and the family continued to struggle financially, she became increasingly worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mexico, Ruiz Arévalos felt that his world had broken into a million pieces. He has been part of this blended family for 12 years. When he first met his wife, Armanda Ramírez, her name before she married him, her daughter Elena was 8. Nathan was 6, and Ignacio was 5. The children have their father’s last name and their mother’s maiden name: Gutiérrez Ramírez. Later the couple had Priscila together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he talks about his children, his voice becomes soft with love as he recalls each of their personalities. Little Priscila is his treasure, his spoiled baby. Elena is loving and noble, he said, a “super daughter.” Nathan is both tough and affectionate. Ignacio, he said, could do anything he wants — studying comes easily to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the worst thing is that my kids really put their heart into their studies,” he said in Spanish. “I feel like I am clipping their wings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 968px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888946 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family stands in a line for a picture amid pink and white birthday decorations. The girl in the middle wears a unicorn outfit.\" width=\"968\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1.jpg 968w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos, Armanda Ruiz, Priscila Ruiz Ramirez, Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez and Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez celebrating Priscila’s birthday in Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos had been living in the U.S. without immigration papers since his parents brought him in the early ’90s, when he was 17. Since 1996, immigration law makes it difficult for anyone who crossed the border illegally and stayed in the U.S. for more than a year to get a green card, even if they are married to a U.S. citizen. They have to leave the country to apply, and if they lived here without immigration papers, they are banned from reentering the country for 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11858316\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/gettyimages-1230936271-66a4f28f0f4c76f8936d96115f8be7f11c103ec7-1020x765.jpg\"]There is one way around the 10-year ban: You can apply for a waiver if you can prove that being forced to stay outside the U.S. would cause “extreme hardship” for a U.S. citizen spouse or parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before going to his interview appointment in Ciudad Juárez, Ruiz Arévalos applied for a waiver, arguing that his absence would cause severe hardship for his wife. In the documents they submitted, they detailed how hard it would be for her to be left alone to care for their four children, including Priscila, with her medical issues and developmental delays, and Nathan, with severe depression and panic attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the waiver. The couple believed they had all their paperwork in order. They secured a fiscal sponsor — a family friend who agreed to support Ruiz Arévalos and his family. The sponsor made far more than the minimum income required by federal regulations, which is 125% of the federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Ruiz Arévalos showed up for his appointment, the consulate official questioned whether his fiscal sponsor would actually support the family if needed and asked Ruiz Arévalos whether his family had used welfare. Priscila has received Supplemental Security Income — provided to disabled people in lower-income families — since she was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other children in the family had received food stamps. The consulate told him he would need an additional fiscal sponsor to prove he wouldn’t become dependent on the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of waiting for him to turn in the new paperwork, the consulate told him he was inadmissible to the U.S. because he was likely to become a public charge, and canceled his waiver of the 10-year ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department declined to say how many other applicants for green cards had their waivers revoked because of the new public charge policy that was in place from 2018 to 2020. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the data was not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Erin Quinn, Immigrant Legal Resource Center\"]‘They can overcome the public charge issue … but the damage was already done, because the real harm for families like this one is those years of separation that can’t be undone.’[/pullquote]Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/\">Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a>, said likely thousands of the people denied entry under “public charge” in 2018 and 2019 had previously lived in the U.S. and had waivers to show that being separated from their families would cause extreme hardship, like Ruiz Arévalos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that guidance came out, officers had clearly gotten marching orders to go on this fishing expedition, as a way to begin denying cases that were otherwise clearly eligible for their permanent resident status,” Quinn said. “They can overcome the public charge issue by turning in the information requested, but the damage was already done, because the real harm for families like this one is those years of separation that can’t be undone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos submitted the names of three different fiscal sponsors to the consulate. But the process slowed almost to a halt because of the pandemic. While he waited, he tried his best to stay connected to his family across the border. They do regular video calls so the kids can talk with their dad. Ignacio even calls Ruiz Arévalos for help when he has to fix something at home — how to change the oil in the car, how to unclog the toilet, how to fix the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888941\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 534px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888941 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1.jpg\" alt='A woman in a dress embraces a high school graduate in a yellow cap and gown with a red \"2020\" sash.' width=\"534\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1.jpg 534w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1-160x239.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, right, at high school graduation with mom Armanda Ruiz. José Luis Ruiz Arévalos had to miss Nathan’s graduation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months before Ruiz Arévalos went to Mexico, the Gutiérrez Ramírez kids’ biological father died. They didn’t have much contact with him the last few years he was alive, but when they found out he died, it was painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a dad, and I didn’t get along very well with him. We had problems. Then I get another dad, and they take him away,” Nathan told Ruiz Arévalos recently. “It’s not fair. I want my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit us all very hard that he wasn’t able to come back,” Ruiz said. She said Priscila especially didn’t understand why her dad was in Mexico. “Why is my dad over there?” Ruiz said she would ask. “Why doesn’t he come here? Why doesn’t he sleep here with us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos wasn’t there to see Nathan’s graduation from high school, or Priscila’s ceremony for “reclassification” to show she is no longer considered an English-language learner at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s missed two years of birthdays and movie watching and countless dance sessions in the family living room. He wasn’t there to see them all stuff eggshells with confetti for Easter, or to watch how they made distance learning work, with all five of them learning from home — Elena and Nathan in college classes, Ignacio in high school, Priscila in special education, and their mother taking an English class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it feels different not having a father figure,” Ignacio said. “’Cause you know, there’s a different kind of relationship with your dad than your mother, I’d say, if you’re a guy, ’cause like, you know, guys just understand each other. Like you don’t even have to say something, you already know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, Elena met with a college counselor and decided to join the Army Reserve. She went to basic training in July and will be there until November, so she won’t be able to attend college classes in the fall. She’s hoping she can return to college in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During this time of uncertainty, at least the Army will bring some form of certainty,” Elena said. “In addition, if something were to happen to my mom, I will be the one taking care of my siblings, and without a stable job, I can’t guarantee that. That’s why the Army sounds like a good deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may finally be some hope in Ruiz Arévalos’s case. In July 2020, a U.S. District Court in New York issued a temporary injunction requiring consulates to stop using the new guidance on public charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']And most recently in August, the Department of Homeland Security began the process to ask the public how the public charge rule should be changed in the future, specifically mentioning it does not want the rule to “unduly impose barriers” on people seeking adjustment of status, like Ruiz Arévalos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Ruiz Arévalos received another letter in the mail from the consulate in Ciudad Juárez, the first in months. For the first time, there was no mention of “public charge.” The letter said he could now apply again for a waiver. The process could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Ruiz and the kids went to visit Ruiz Arévalos in Mexico, the last family trip before Elena headed to basic training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went to the beach — a first for some of the children — and waded into the ocean, playing in the waves. From the sand, Ruiz watched and took a video with her phone — her husband, with her children, walking toward the horizon. They jumped over wave after wave coming at them. For the moment, they were all together.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The site and an outreach campaign to promote it will be in English, Spanish, Portuguese and several Indigenous languages of Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888800\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1347px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu.jpg\" alt='A graphic that reads out, \"Do you qualify? You may qualify for reunification if you are either: 1. A parent or legal guardian who was separated under U.S. immigration laws, including through the use of the Zero Tolerance policy, from their child by the U.S. government at the U.S.-Mexico border; 2. A child who was separated under U.S. immigration laws, including through the use of the Zero Tolerance policy, from their parent or legal guardian by the U.S. government at the U.S.-Mexico border; 3. The separation occurred between January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021. Parents and children who were previously reunited also qualify for Task Force benefits and should register.' width=\"1347\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu.jpg 1347w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1347px) 100vw, 1347px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the qualifications to be eligible for the together.gov portal for parents seeking to be reunited with their children in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of together.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The IOM will help with the logistics of reuniting families, explained Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, who welcomed the Biden administration’s expanded efforts as “an important first step,” though he believes migrants should get more than three years of residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IOM will also be tasked with “allowing the family to get passports more easily, [getting them] to the U.S. embassy, [getting] travel documents, [making] plane reservations, but also simply to get them from one place to another,” said Gelernt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parents are believed to be in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Brazil. They often lack passports and the means to travel to the U.S. to try to gain entry at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes they are living in rural communities, hours and hours away from the capital city, sometimes they need protection when they make that trip,” Gelernt explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once parents are located and return to the United States, they will receive work permits, residency for three years and some support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, we need the families to be given permanent legal status in light of what the United States government deliberately did to these families,” Gelernt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU is in talks with the government to provide some compensation to the families as part of settlement talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1043px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite.jpg\" alt=\"aam-us.org graphic titled, 'Preparing your registration,' which includes the following sections: 1. Registration is the first step in reuniting your family. To complete the registration, be prepared to provide: 2. Your contact information (for example, email address, phone number, or physical address); 2. The separated parent's A-number, if known (this is an eight or nin-digit number that starts with the letter "A" that was on the documents provided by the U.S. immigration officials); 3. The separated child's A-number, if known; 4. The separated child's location, if known; 5. The separated child's contact information, if known (for example, email address or phone number); 6. If applicable, your legal representative's name and contact information (for example, phone mu,ber or email address). A signed Form G-28 is not required to complete the registration; 7. Registration is free. Only one registration is needed per family and should include all family members who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.\" width=\"1043\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite.jpg 1043w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1043px) 100vw, 1043px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the list of eligibility requirements from together.gov for parents separated from their children at the border to receive assistance from the federal government. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of together.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A new strategy for an ongoing problem\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bringing the IOM on board to help with the often-complex task of getting expelled migrants back to the U.S., is a reflection of just how difficult it has been for President Joe Biden’s administration to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">a chapter in U.S. immigration history\u003c/a> that drew widespread condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11885260\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/BhaiFamily-1020x732.jpg\"]The task force has reunited about 50 families since starting its work in late February, but there are hundreds of parents, and perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000, who were separated from their children and have not been located. A lack of accurate records from the Trump administration makes it difficult to say for certain, said Brané from the Family Reunification Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a huge challenge that we are absolutely committed to following through to meet and to do whatever we can to reunify these families,” she said as she outlined the new program in an interview with The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868475/task-force-investigates-whether-trump-separated-families-earlier-than-known\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">separated thousands of migrant parents from their children in 2017 and 2018\u003c/a> as it moved to criminally prosecute people for crossing the southwest border, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">including those seeking asylum\u003c/a>. Minors, who could not be held in criminal custody with their parents, were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS faced allegations that, in some shelters, caregivers were instructed not to touch or comfort the children, and in others, children suffered sexual abuse, including by staff members. From the shelters, the children were then typically sent to live with a sponsor, often a relative or someone else with a connection to the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid public outrage, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/latin-america-court-decisions-politics-courts-ap-top-news-1dafadd6fee4447cadd4a0179553026e\">issued an executive order\u003c/a> halting the practice of family separations in June 2018, days before a federal judge did the same and demanded that separated families be reunited in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 5,500 children were separated from their families, according to the ACLU. 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"content": "\u003cp>“Coming here, we lost it all.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Néstor, 14, says now about his journey to the United States three years ago. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father, Melvin, says he received death threats from local gang members and leaving El Salvador was his best shot to protect his family. Néstor’s mother was pregnant at the time, and so just father and son made the journey north. Néstor still hasn’t had the opportunity to meet his new brother. “Whenever I think about that,” Néstor says in Spanish, “I feel like crying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who migrate to the U.S. from Central and South America to seek asylum know they will be leaving behind loved ones. What roughly 5,500 of those families didn’t know is that if they made it all the way to the U.S.-Mexico border, they would also be separated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melvin, on being separated from his son\"]‘The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication.’[/pullquote]Néstor and Melvin — they asked not to use their last name to protect their anonymity and safety as they apply for asylum — are among the families who were split apart by the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018. The policy was part of a strategy meant to curb legal and illegal immigration, but it’s been widely criticized by immigration advocates for being psychologically traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin, 33, and Néstor shared with NPR some of the details of their story as they continue to process what happened to them and their asylum case makes its way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parents Begged Detention Center Officials for Information\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melvin and Néstor left their home in El Salvador on May 26, 2018. Néstor’s mom, pregnant with her third son, felt unable to make the dangerous journey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is when I made the decision to bring [Néstor] because he was the oldest one,” Melvin says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his dad covered over 1,000 miles as they made their way to the U.S. by car, raft and foot. Melvin sometimes carried his son, exhausted from the journey, in his arms and on his back. They say the journey was terrifying — navigating police extortion, death threats and physical suffering. They passed over the Rio Grande on a makeshift raft, scared for their lives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melvin and Néstor reached the U.S. border on June 5 — a few months after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961048895/justice-department-rescinds-trumps-zero-tolerance-immigration-policy\">the zero-tolerance policy\u003c/a> — they hoped their journey was over and could begin the process of applying for asylum. Unaware they would be separated, they turned themselves in at the Port Isabel checkpoint in Texas and got in vans headed for detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were taken to separate facilities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11877128 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg']Néstor recalls being put in a van with other separated children and driven to a place he says looked like a prison. There were no cloth blankets. The children were given Mylar wraps to keep warm. Néstor doesn’t know how many days he was there. He lost count. He didn’t know where his father was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” ‘And the children? And the children?” Melvin says he and other parents begged detention center officials to tell them where their children were, but he says officials wouldn’t say. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877128/reunification-alone-is-not-enough-biden-task-force-finds-2100-children-may-still-be-separated-from-parents\">Biden administration-era task force\u003c/a> has found that the strategy was so unclear, it might have been that even those officials didn’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I’d] cry at night, feel sad, and not know what the future would be, because for me, every day what they told me was ‘No, they’re going to deport you. They’re going to send you back and your kids are going to stay here. They’re going to get adopted.’ I would say, ‘No, how are you going to take away my son? That’s my son, he’s mine. You can’t, you can’t,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Néstor was also asking for his father. He says the adults caring for him always said “soon,” but soon never came. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2914-edit_custom-6cc5a8ed5d4b8ca48d3c5b0eef75bdaf5b881613-scaled-e1624391955465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878929\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin (left) shows the notes his son, Néstor, wrote while they were separated. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, officials transferred Néstor north, more than 1,000 miles away from his father in Texas, to New York to stay with a foster mom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he cried at night, worried he had lost his whole family forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fear was not unfounded. NPR’s immigration team \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004205868/bidens-task-force-has-reunited-36-migrant-families-with-hundreds-to-go\">has reported\u003c/a> that immigrant advocates believe at least 1,000 children remain separated from their parents. The Department of Homeland Security says it cannot find a record of reunification for at least 2,100 children, but that is partly due to poor record keeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They’re Reunited, But There’s Still Fear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On June 26, 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630463522/5-things-to-know-about-migrant-family-reunification\">a federal judge ordered the government\u003c/a> to reunify separated families. Exactly two months later, Néstor and Melvin were reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Néstor had been apart from his dad for about two and a half months when a man came to New York to pick him up from his foster home and escort him to the airport to fly to California, where his dad was living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2748-edit_custom-f5d106c8704a2fd81aa9353f92e641601020a008-scaled-e1624392037467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878928\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Néstor (left) and his father Melvin left their home in El Salvador in 2018. They covered over 1,000 miles by car, raft and foot, and then they were taken to separate facilities when they reached the U.S. border. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor says he gathered what little possessions he had — mostly notes he’d been writing to his father to try to maintain their connection — and he boarded a plane to Los Angeles. He recalls this next moment with an audible smile: When he saw his dad at the airport, he ran into his arms and instantly cried. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were mixed emotions, something unexplainable in that moment to see him arrive,” Melvin remembers. “After so much uncertainty of not knowing what would happen or know anything about him, it was something beautiful after so much pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a joyous moment, but Néstor has struggled in many ways since. As the months passed, there were times when Néstor didn’t want to leave the house or play sports. He’s had nightmares. Melvin says he watched his son withdraw and feel unmotivated — something many separated children feel, says Melissa Tith, a therapist and a program supervisor at Seneca Family of Agencies, a nonprofit organization working to get free mental health support to people like Néstor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_3096-edit_custom-49463e598f578c3ba4c6d1c1005e5f553618b515-scaled-e1624393197470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878930\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin and Néstor are reunited and currently live together in Southern California as they wait for their asylum case to be processed. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor and Melvin are living in Southern California while they wait for their asylum case to be processed. But as NPR has reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/982795844/biden-administration-considers-overhaul-of-asylum-system-at-southern-border\">that could take years\u003c/a>. And there is no guarantee they’ll get to stay. The Biden administration says it’s helping affected families with free therapy and is negotiating with immigration advocates about doing more. That could include granting legal status to families separated under zero tolerance, but there are no firm public commitments yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2020, Néstor has been seeing a therapist weekly through Seneca. He says it’s helping. It’s a slow process of untangling the feelings and fear he experienced while separated and it may be a lifelong effort, Tith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hardly have any more nightmares,” he says. He’s just graduated middle school and he’s excited to start high school. He says he wants to grow up to become a surgeon in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They both imagine a life in the U.S., but that future is far from certain. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most valuable thing is to have our family together and have good health,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joel Rose contributed to and Heidi Glenn edited the digital story. \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Separated+At+The+Border%2C+A+Father+Reunites+With+His+Son.+But+Struggles+Remain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Néstor recalls being put in a van with other separated children and driven to a place he says looked like a prison. There were no cloth blankets. The children were given Mylar wraps to keep warm. Néstor doesn’t know how many days he was there. He lost count. He didn’t know where his father was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” ‘And the children? And the children?” Melvin says he and other parents begged detention center officials to tell them where their children were, but he says officials wouldn’t say. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877128/reunification-alone-is-not-enough-biden-task-force-finds-2100-children-may-still-be-separated-from-parents\">Biden administration-era task force\u003c/a> has found that the strategy was so unclear, it might have been that even those officials didn’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I’d] cry at night, feel sad, and not know what the future would be, because for me, every day what they told me was ‘No, they’re going to deport you. They’re going to send you back and your kids are going to stay here. They’re going to get adopted.’ I would say, ‘No, how are you going to take away my son? That’s my son, he’s mine. You can’t, you can’t,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Néstor was also asking for his father. He says the adults caring for him always said “soon,” but soon never came. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2914-edit_custom-6cc5a8ed5d4b8ca48d3c5b0eef75bdaf5b881613-scaled-e1624391955465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878929\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin (left) shows the notes his son, Néstor, wrote while they were separated. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, officials transferred Néstor north, more than 1,000 miles away from his father in Texas, to New York to stay with a foster mom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he cried at night, worried he had lost his whole family forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fear was not unfounded. NPR’s immigration team \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004205868/bidens-task-force-has-reunited-36-migrant-families-with-hundreds-to-go\">has reported\u003c/a> that immigrant advocates believe at least 1,000 children remain separated from their parents. The Department of Homeland Security says it cannot find a record of reunification for at least 2,100 children, but that is partly due to poor record keeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They’re Reunited, But There’s Still Fear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On June 26, 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630463522/5-things-to-know-about-migrant-family-reunification\">a federal judge ordered the government\u003c/a> to reunify separated families. Exactly two months later, Néstor and Melvin were reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Néstor had been apart from his dad for about two and a half months when a man came to New York to pick him up from his foster home and escort him to the airport to fly to California, where his dad was living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2748-edit_custom-f5d106c8704a2fd81aa9353f92e641601020a008-scaled-e1624392037467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878928\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Néstor (left) and his father Melvin left their home in El Salvador in 2018. They covered over 1,000 miles by car, raft and foot, and then they were taken to separate facilities when they reached the U.S. border. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor says he gathered what little possessions he had — mostly notes he’d been writing to his father to try to maintain their connection — and he boarded a plane to Los Angeles. He recalls this next moment with an audible smile: When he saw his dad at the airport, he ran into his arms and instantly cried. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were mixed emotions, something unexplainable in that moment to see him arrive,” Melvin remembers. “After so much uncertainty of not knowing what would happen or know anything about him, it was something beautiful after so much pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a joyous moment, but Néstor has struggled in many ways since. As the months passed, there were times when Néstor didn’t want to leave the house or play sports. He’s had nightmares. 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"content": "\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/21_0602_s1_family-reunification-task-force-120-day-progress-report.pdf\">new report\u003c/a> released Tuesday from the Biden administration’s Family Reunification Task Force identifies 2,127 children who may still be separated from their parents as a result of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That total number includes families who fall into two distinct groups, according to American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt, who’s representing parents in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864249/family-separations-lawsuit-u-s-and-aclu-start-settlement-talks\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> over the forcible separations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lee Gelernt, ACLU attorney\"]‘When the president of the United States says that something is an historic moral stain on the country, then I think all red tape needs to go.’[/pullquote]The first group is comprised of parents — those of 391 children — who have not been located by the ACLU and other groups through ongoing reunification efforts initiated as part of the lawsuit, according to the most recent report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other group are families who have been contacted by us, but were not reunited because the Trump administration only gave them two brutal choices: remain permanently separated from your child, or have your child come back to your home country and back to the very danger from which they fled,” Gelernt said. “So those are families who’ve been found — we know they’re separated — but they need to be reunited now. 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There, family members are screened again by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official, who can authorize parole for up to three years. While parole is a temporary status, it allows recipients to apply for work authorization and potentially restart an asylum application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ACLU press call Tuesday, Gelernt said the ACLU is negotiating, as part of the settlement talks, for permanent legal status and compensation for the harm and suffering inflicted on the separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force is also exploring continued support for the families, including ongoing case management services and referrals to clinical behavioral treatment services, and intends over the next two months to determine the scope of those services and find a “durable funding source,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Task Force seeks to implement needed holistic support and services for reunified families so that they may benefit from behavioral health assessment and treatment,” the report states. “Needed services will include housing, employment, security, legal status, food insecurity, income, language skills and interpretation, the asylum-seeking process, and discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, and Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859436/el-arduo-camino-de-una-abogada-hondurena-para-reunir-a-las-familias-separadas-en-la-frontera-sur-de-los-ee-uu\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 10 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and 42-year-old Dora Melara is packing a bag. She grabs some clothes and important documents, and then makes some sandwiches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, she will begin her search for a Honduran father who was separated from his teenage son at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018. Their names are being withheld because the case is sensitive and still in legal limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how long Melara may be away from home — one night, perhaps more. She has learned that this work is unpredictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831289/how-covid-19-has-impacted-the-search-for-separated-families\">Melara\u003c/a> is an attorney working for \u003ca href=\"https://www.guidestar.org/profile/72-1597864\">Justice in Motion\u003c/a>, a U.S.-based nonprofit that has been tasked with trying to find and reunify families. They work in tandem with the American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant advocacy organizations as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/ms-l-v-ice-complaint\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed against the federal government in response to the Trump administration’s family separation policy. This week, the ACLU and the Biden administration agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864249/family-separations-lawsuit-u-s-and-aclu-start-settlement-talks\">enter settlement negotiations\u003c/a> in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, much of the burden of finding the parents of separated children has been on nonprofits and lawyers coordinating across borders, particularly in Honduras and Guatemala, the home countries of many of the families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, President Biden signed an executive order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858316/biden-signs-immigration-executive-orders-establishes-task-force-to-reunite-separated-families\">establish a task force\u003c/a> focused on reunifying families separated by the Trump administration. But the details are still being worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing on March 1, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that parents may be able to choose to reunite with their children either in their country of origin or in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If in fact, they seek to reunite here in the United States, we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain in the United States and to address the family needs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, federal officials have not laid out concrete policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until they act, it’s up to people like Melara to make these trips, looking for people who were separated from their children and then deported by the U.S. government. Melara focuses on cases close to home, in Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Day One\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s 5 a.m. Monday, and Melara and a colleague who usually accompanies her on these searches head out. Their destination is a mountain town near the border with Guatemala. The drive should take four hours, on a good day. But today, it’s rainy and cold, and the traffic is piling up with everyone heading to work. It’s slowing things down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Melara’s second time making this trip in the past four months. Since 2019, she has performed more than three dozen searches, many of them successful. She said the harm done to people who sought asylum in the U.S. motivates her to do this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858652\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5.jpeg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5-160x284.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dora Melara stops to get gas during her trip. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were people who were humiliated, who had their rights violated,” Melara said. “They have the opportunity to know that they can have justice for everything they’ve lived through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also a parent herself. The work can be personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every interview and story I hear from the parents is sad, and it moves me,” she said. “As parents, we want to protect [our children].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/family-separations-biden-trump-honduras/2021/01/31/f6b815cc-6198-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html\">separated more than 5,500 children from their parents\u003c/a>. And while a majority of families have been reunited, hundreds of parents are still unaccounted for. That’s in part because the administration did not keep track of where the parents went. And contact information for them is often outdated or incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melara begins these searches, she usually has very little information — a name, maybe a location. Often, she finds that families have moved, or the information was inaccurate, and searching through government documents and online can only take her so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has to rely on the kindness of strangers — family members of the parent, or their neighbors — to point her in the right direction. But getting this information requires building trust, in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why she drives long distances for even the slimmest chance of finding parents, despite any challenges — and there have been many. She has performed searches during the coronavirus pandemic. Later, government-enforced curfews prevented her from traveling. It was only in August that she was able to restart the searches in person, but fears of contracting the coronavirus have made building trust more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in November, two deadly hurricanes — Eta and Iota — swept through Honduras, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/americas/guatemala-hurricanes-mudslide-migration.html\">leaving more than 150,000 people displaced and hundreds dead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage from the hurricanes has touched Melara directly. Her home in San Pedro Sula was hit by heavy floods, and while it wasn’t destroyed, nearly everything inside of it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The house can’t be entered right now — it’s filled with mud,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she has stayed with relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two hours into her drive, Melara has already counted four rockslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are warnings on the road that the roads are damaged and that we must drive with caution,” she said. “There are homemade signs that people have put up themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They brake often to avoid large potholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the numerous rockslides Melara has to navigate around on her journey. They were caused in part by hurricanes that devastated parts of Honduras in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around noon, she finally arrives at the first town. With the bad weather and damaged roads, Melara’s trying to make this trip go quickly since driving can be dangerous after dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/honduras#34b6ed\">2021 report from Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> found that “violent organized crime continues to disrupt Honduran society,” and has pushed many to attempt to leave the country. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G19/005/53/PDF/G1900553.pdf?OpenElement\">2018 report\u003c/a> from a United Nations special rapporteur, human rights defenders and lawyers are some of the most at-risk of that violence, with the vast majority “unable to work in a safe, supportive environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindful that night will fall soon, she meets with local community leaders. She tells them the father’s name and explains why she is looking for him. They say the only people they know with that surname are in another town, about 40 minutes away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet she has no address or contact there. So, once she arrives at the next town, she tracks down local leaders, once again. They tell her to go check yet another town, two hours away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, the sun is getting low and the weather is bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need to stay the night here,” she said. “The rain won’t stop, and the fog is thick. The road isn’t good right now, parts of it have washed away because of the hurricanes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s nothing left to do but sleep and hope for more luck in the morning..\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Day Two\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melara wakes up early, checks out of the hotel and hits the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she gets to the new town — the third in two days — she, again, meets with local officials to explain her mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, she’s in luck: Someone knows the area the father is living in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an address!” Melara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the final road is steep and covered with mud. Eventually, Melara has to ditch her car and continue by foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she gets to the top of the hill, there’s a cluster of small homes. A young boy runs up to greet her. He’s curious about why she’s there, and Melara explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, finally — after two days of searching — a man steps out of one of the homes. It’s the father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The weather is bad on her trip, with dense fog and rain. Making the drive even more dangerous. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Lost and Found\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At first, when she meets the father, he’s surprised to see her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was completely unaware that we were looking for him,” Melara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dora Melara\"]‘There are parents who’ve told me, ‘I felt the desire to die. I felt a desire not to return to my land. I was ashamed to see my wife and know that I took my son and returned without him.”[/pullquote]After a while, and some explanation, he relaxes and invites her to sit. She asks if he knows where his son is and if he has any contact with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has an idea of where his son is, but he is not in contact with him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Melara, that’s not uncommon. Parents might not have a phone, or have to walk long distances to get a cell signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Melara and the father talk for more than an hour. She listens to his story, they talk about his son and exchange information. She hopes they will remain in touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, Melara reflects on what parents have told her about being turned back at the U.S.-Mexico border without their kids. She says some parents feel shame. Some don’t want to go home at all to face their spouses without their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parents who’ve told me, ‘I felt the desire to die. I felt a desire not to return to my land. I was ashamed to see my wife and know that I took my son and returned without him. What will my wife think of me?’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if she cannot change anything right away, Melara said that meeting the parents, listening to them, can be meaningful. When they talk, she said, parents know that someone cares about their family, perhaps brings them some hope — and acknowledgment — of what happened to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t feel so alone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-800x599.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-1020x763.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A church stands in one of the areas that Dora Melara searched for the father. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘He Needs Me With Him’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One father said that when lawyers from Justice in Motion found him, it came as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, whose name we’re not using due to threats against this life, fled to the United States in April 2018, seeking asylum with his 5-year-old son. Gangs in the area had recently killed someone close to him and were targeting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I fled] because of fear,” he said through a translator. “I was very scared because they had killed my cousin, he was like my brother, and my friend. So, I didn’t want that to happen to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he crossed over into the U.S., border agents took him and his son to the hielera, a cold room where people seeking asylum were often held. The man said immigration officials told him they would take him to court and that he would likely be deported, but his son would be staying behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked him, ‘Please, deport me with my child.’ The officer said, ‘No, your child will stay here in this country and you’ll be deported,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer told the man that his son would make it to his sister’s, where the two intended to stay, but that he would not be able to join him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His son was taken from him while he appeared in court. The father said he never got a chance to say goodbye. It was 20 days before he knew where his son was, and it wasn’t until he was deported back to Central America that he was able to make contact with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys said that when the boy’s mother found out he had been taken from his father, she was so desperate to get him back that she journeyed to the border and crossed into the U.S. herself, to be with her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy is now 7 years old and living with his mother and an aunt. The father said when they talk on the phone, his son often asks why he isn’t there with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He misses me a lot,” he said. “He talks to me, and he is always asking me when I’m going to get there, and he has told me that I’m a bad father because I abandoned him in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sometimes, the father thinks so, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11831289 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/child-separations4-1038x576.jpg']Despite the fact that the U.S. government is responsible for the conditions of their separation, and that he did everything he could to prevent it, the man still feels like it’s his fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I felt and I still feel sometimes like I failed as a father,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried to adjust to this new life, with the pain of loss in the backdrop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a little more than a year ago, an attorney called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not expecting anything. I really did not know what was happening,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney explained who they were working with and his possible options. They helped put him in touch with Justice in Motion and Melara who has been working on his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very, very great to hear from her because it’s only, really, a few people helping and I am still very thankful to her,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was because of this meeting that the man eventually got connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/jobs/item.9742-Staff_Attorney_Al_Otro_Lado#:~:text=Al%20Otro%20Lado%20is%20a,violate%20the%20rights%20of%20migrants.&text=Current%20litigation%20includes%20Al%20Otro%20Lado%20v.\">Al Otro Lado,\u003c/a> a California-based binational advocacy and legal organization that is currently helping him pursue asylum. While he waits, he is in hiding in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/02/02/executive-order-the-establishment-of-interagency-task-force-on-the-reunification-of-families/\">executive order aims\u003c/a> to address some of the harm caused by separating families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='family-separation']But advocates say the order \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-effort-reunite-migrant-families-separated-under-trump-not-enough-n1256495\">doesn’t go far enough\u003c/a>. The order focuses mainly on reunifying families who are still separated. It doesn’t specifically address remedies for parents who were pressured to accept deportation with their child rather than being separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, they say, some families may be wary of interacting again with the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any reason to believe the U.S. government is going to do anything to help them. Why should they, right?” said Cathleen Caron, founder and executive director of Justice in Motion. She says the government should rely on people like Melara, who’ve already established connections and trust in the communities, and make sure they take the family’s preferences into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s order also does not guarantee any legal immigration status for those affected or ensure social services will be provided, though it does recommend the task force look into these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the father’s case that Melara is working on — the issue of legal status is especially pressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Flores, communications manager at Al Otro Lado, said that without a guarantee of protection, the father could risk applying for asylum and being turned away again, “resulting in a doubly traumatic re-separation from his child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the father said — with the help he now has from Al Otro Lado and others — he can imagine a future where his family is together again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope to be able to reunify with my son because he’s so little, and he needs me with him,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The World’s Monica Campbell contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated March 12. It was originally published on Feb. 4, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But the details are still being worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing on March 1, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that parents may be able to choose to reunite with their children either in their country of origin or in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If in fact, they seek to reunite here in the United States, we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain in the United States and to address the family needs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, federal officials have not laid out concrete policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until they act, it’s up to people like Melara to make these trips, looking for people who were separated from their children and then deported by the U.S. government. Melara focuses on cases close to home, in Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Day One\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s 5 a.m. Monday, and Melara and a colleague who usually accompanies her on these searches head out. Their destination is a mountain town near the border with Guatemala. The drive should take four hours, on a good day. But today, it’s rainy and cold, and the traffic is piling up with everyone heading to work. It’s slowing things down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Melara’s second time making this trip in the past four months. Since 2019, she has performed more than three dozen searches, many of them successful. She said the harm done to people who sought asylum in the U.S. motivates her to do this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858652\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5.jpeg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5-160x284.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dora Melara stops to get gas during her trip. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were people who were humiliated, who had their rights violated,” Melara said. “They have the opportunity to know that they can have justice for everything they’ve lived through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also a parent herself. The work can be personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every interview and story I hear from the parents is sad, and it moves me,” she said. “As parents, we want to protect [our children].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/family-separations-biden-trump-honduras/2021/01/31/f6b815cc-6198-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html\">separated more than 5,500 children from their parents\u003c/a>. And while a majority of families have been reunited, hundreds of parents are still unaccounted for. That’s in part because the administration did not keep track of where the parents went. And contact information for them is often outdated or incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melara begins these searches, she usually has very little information — a name, maybe a location. Often, she finds that families have moved, or the information was inaccurate, and searching through government documents and online can only take her so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has to rely on the kindness of strangers — family members of the parent, or their neighbors — to point her in the right direction. But getting this information requires building trust, in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why she drives long distances for even the slimmest chance of finding parents, despite any challenges — and there have been many. She has performed searches during the coronavirus pandemic. Later, government-enforced curfews prevented her from traveling. It was only in August that she was able to restart the searches in person, but fears of contracting the coronavirus have made building trust more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in November, two deadly hurricanes — Eta and Iota — swept through Honduras, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/americas/guatemala-hurricanes-mudslide-migration.html\">leaving more than 150,000 people displaced and hundreds dead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage from the hurricanes has touched Melara directly. Her home in San Pedro Sula was hit by heavy floods, and while it wasn’t destroyed, nearly everything inside of it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The house can’t be entered right now — it’s filled with mud,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she has stayed with relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two hours into her drive, Melara has already counted four rockslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are warnings on the road that the roads are damaged and that we must drive with caution,” she said. “There are homemade signs that people have put up themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They brake often to avoid large potholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the numerous rockslides Melara has to navigate around on her journey. 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