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Friday, June 29, 2018
Denton Record-Chronicle
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Judge orders detained Brazilian boy’s release
Thursday, police arrested near-
ly 600 people after hundreds of
loudly chanting women demon-
strated inside a Senate office
building against Trump’s im-
migration policy. Among those
arrested was Rep. Pramila Jay-
apal, the Democrat from Wash-
ington state said on twitter.
Meanwhile, Melania Trump
spent time with children at a
complex in Phoenix where doz-
ens of migrant children sepa-
rated from their parents at the
border are being held.
Souza’s son has spent four
weeks at a government-con-
tracted shelter in Chicago, much
of it alone in a room, quaran-
tined with chickenpox. He spent
his ninth birthday on Monday
without his mom. Even after
Tuesday’s ruling in California,
Souza’s attorneys nonetheless
moved forward with an emer-
gency hearing in their lawsuit
against the Trump administra-
tion.
And some say their calls to the
government’s 1-800 informa-
tion hotline have gone unan-
swered.
Huge logistical challenges
remain, and whether the U.S.
government can manage to
clear away the red tape, confu-
sion and seeming lack of coor-
dination and make the deadline
remains to be seen.
Among the complicating fac-
tors: Children have been sent
to shelters all over the United
States, thousands of miles from
the border. And perhaps hun-
dreds of parents have already
been deported from the U.S.
without their children.
Jesse Bless, an attorney from
Jeff Goldman Immigration in
Boston, one of two firms repre-
senting Souza, said some par-
ents who are trying to get their
children placed with friends or
relatives in the U.S. are being
asked by the government to pro-
vide, along with fingerprints of
relatives, utility bills and lease
information, which many newly
arrived immigrants don’t have.
Souza and her son were sep-
arated after she requested asy-
lum, arguing her life was in dan-
ger in her native Brazil. “I came
out of necessity,” she told the AP.
After her son was taken, she
had no idea where he was until
another detained mother said
her child knew a boy named
Diogo in a Chicago shelter. She
had been told the soonest he
could be released would be in
late July.
Souza visited Diogo for the
first time since May on Tues-
day. They embraced, and she
kissed him several times on the
head and face, then grabbed his
cheeks gently with her hands as
they both cried.
“I missed you so much,” she
said in Portuguese.
Asked how he was, Diogo
said: “I am better now.”
Their visit lasted an hour.
Then he returned to U.S. gov-
ernment custody.
“He cried a lot when the time
came to say goodbye,” she said.
“He thought we would be taking
him home.”
By Martha Irvine
and Michael Tarm
Associated Press
CHICAGO -
A federal
judge in Chicago on Thursday
ordered the U.S. government
to release a 9-year-old Brazilian
boy who was separated from his
mother at the U.S.-Mexico bor-
der, saying their continued sepa-
ration “irreparably harms them
both.”
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Judge Manish Shah mulled
his decision for just a few hours
before finding that Lidia Karine
Souza can have custody of her
son, Diogo, who has spent four
weeks at a government-con-
tracted shelter in Chicago.
Shah ordered that the child be
released Thursday, but didn’t
specify a time. Souza’s attorneys
said she would pick up her son
Thursday afternoon.
The mother, who has applied
for asylum, was released from
an immigrant detention facility
in Texas on June 9 and is living
with relatives outside Boston.
“Judge Shah has vindicated
the rule of law and taken a de-
finitive step to allow Lidia’s son
to finally be with her again. We
are hopeful that this outcome
will benefit other families facing
similar circumstances,” attor-
neys Jesse Bless and Britt Miller
said in a written statement.
Shah, the son of immigrants
from India, took just four hours
before posting his written ruling
after a hearing Thursday morn-
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Ruben Garcia, director of the Annunciation House, speaks with migrant parents Tuesday
in El Paso. The migrants are some of the 32 parents separated from their children who are
staying at the home as they wait to be reunited with their children.
Souza’s son has spent four
weeks at a government-con-
tracted shelter in Chicago, much
of it alone in a room, quaran-
tined with chickenpox. He spent
his ninth birthday on Monday
without his mom. Even after
Tuesday’s ruling in Calfomia
Shah wrote that he under-
stood that volume of paperwork,
filings and forms normally re-
quired before the government
can release a child in its custo-
dy are intended to ensure the
child’s well-being. But, he said,
“the government’s interests in
completing certain procedures
to be sure that [Souza’s child]
is placed in a safe environment
and in managing the response
to ongoing class litigation do not
outweigh the family’s interest in
reuniting.”
The fitness of the mother
in this case isn’t questioned, he
said, so dragging out processing
“only serves to interfere in the
family’s integrity with little to
no benefit to the government’s
interests.”
Souza has been allowed to
phone her son for just 20 min-
utes per week. She has said he
would beg her though tears
to do everything in her pow-
er to get him back to her. The
27-year-old woman searched
for weeks to find Diogo after the
two were separated at the bor-
der in late May. When she was
released, she filled out nearly 40
pages of documents that U.S. of-
ficials told her were required to
regain custody.
Then they told her the rules
had changed and she needed
any family members living with
her in the United States to be
fingerprinted and still more
documents.
Government attorney Craig
Oswald told Shah that U.S. of-
ficials have been “raked over
the coals ... before” for not be-
ing thorough about such back-
ground checks, which he said
are meant to ensure a child’s
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“Continued separation of ...
[the] nine year-old child, and
Souza,” he wrote, “irreparably
harms them both.”
The decision came two days
after a different judge ordered
the government to reunite more
than 2,000 immigrant children
with their families within 30
days, or 14 days for those young-
er than 5. White House spokes-
woman Lindsay Walters de-
clined to say Thursday whether
the administration will be able
to abide by the deadline. She
said more than 500 children
have been reunified with their
families.
In Washington, D.C., on
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Charles Rex Arbogast/AP
Lidia Karine Souza and her son, Diogo De Olivera Filho, smile
at each other at the Mayer Brown law firm during a news
conference shortly after Diogo was reunited with his moth-
er Thursday in Chicago.
safety.
Souza was seeking safety by
coming to the U.S., but it’s not
the safety she sought for herself
and her son. This was not the
some of the hundreds of par- and get them back,
ents separated from their chil-
dren at the Mexican border by sided battle, and a frustrating
the Trump administration have and heartbreaking one. Most do
been battling one of the world’s not speak English,
most complex immigration sys-
tems to find their youngsters their children’s whereabouts.
For many, it has been a lop-
American dream.
“This ... is a nightmare,” she
said in an interview with The
Associated Press on Wednesday.
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