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Migrant Parents Explain What It Feels Like To Have Their Children Taken

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A Honduran asylum-seeker called A.P.F. has been separated from his 12-year-old daughter since June 5. In a handwritten letter filed in federal court on Friday, he said the experience is "torture." "I worry about my daughter constantly. I am not able to speak with her directly. I do not know if she is well cared for. I do not know if she has been sick. I do not know if she has been sleeping well or eating well. Not knowing anything about my daughter is torture. I am not able to sleep. I desperately want to be with her." A.P.F. is currently in immigration detention but is one of many who filed lawsuits to be reunited with their kids. A judge let the parents pursue the case under pseudonyms, so they're only referred to by their initials in court papers. E.F., a Guatemalan woman who crossed the border on May 14 says she was separated from her 9 year old son... the day after they arrived despite seeking ICE at their port of entry and asking for asylum. "My son isn't able to give me much information about his circumstances because is too young and too upset to understand what is happening. Every time we talk he only wants to know when he will see me again so it's hard for him to focus on anything else. Each time we have spoken he only cries. In the brief moments where he can speak he tells me he is ok and that he misses me very much." E.F. E.F. does not know where her son was located, who is caring for him, or if he is healthy. E.F.'s son told her he has nosebleeds but won't report it because other children told him... that "children who report things get sent to another place." Some parents are able to talk to their kids twice a week for 10 minutes, must pay for the calls, even though most calls break up due to bad lines and they often cannot afford to call.

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