Immigrant Girl in Viral Photo Was Reunited With Her Mom

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



Had she been 5, she would have been decreed no longer of a tender age. And even her ‘tender age’ wouldn’t keep her with her mother if there was ‘insufficient detention space.’

MICHAEL DALY
06.20.18 4:59 AM ET

With the instantly iconic photo of a 2-year-old Honduran girl in a pink shirt crying as her mother was searched at the Mexican border came the question of what happened after the two were loaded into a van and driven off to a processing center.

“The mother and daughter were not separated,” a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection told The Daily Beast.

The spokesman further reported that the child was expected to remain with the mother at a detention center and on through a final disposition in federal court. The spokesman added that same could generally be said of all youngsters “of a tender age,” meaning those “4 years and below.”

“I would tell you that being a child under the age of 5, children will not be separated unless…” the spokesman said, proceeding to list four reasons a tender-aged detainee might not be exempt.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-iconic-2-year-old-has-been-reunited-with-her-mom-what-about-the-other-kids?ref=home

[Freethinker65]

1. I hope this is true.

[avebury]

2. With three "tenderage" concentration camps and Trump

looking to put a 4th one in Houston they cannot in any way, shape or means deny the fact that they are taking toddlers and babies away from their parents.

[mucifer]

3. I believe the lawyer who said 4 and 5 year olds are representing themselves in court.

I don't believe a us customs spokesman.

[Chemisse]

4. That sounds very compassionate.

Which is why I don't believe it.

[Hugin]

5. It was ONLY because they were caught.

I believe this case is the exception rather than the rule.

[flotsam]

6. No she was not.

Not until we see a photo of her and her mother with the front page of a major newspaper published today. That's the degree of trust there is in the US government under Trump.

[Orsino]

7. Unverified claim.

Uncritical headline.