'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

Growing numbers of migrant families are making the heart-wrenching decision to separate from their children and send them into America alone.

‘There was no going back’: Migrants send kids into U.S. alone

Growing numbers of migrant families are making the heart-wrenching decision to separate as they try to get their children into America.

‘There was no going back’: Migrants send kids into US alone

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in the middle of the night, she discovered her mom wasn’t coming with her.Her mom told her that she loved her very much right before the boat got pushed into the water.“I thought she…

‘There was no going back’: Migrants send kids into US alone

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in the middle of the night, she discovered her mom wasn’t coming with her.Her mom told her that she loved her very much right before the boat got pushed into the water.“I thought she…

‘There was no going back, they told us to run’ –  South American children being sent over the US border alone

Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal US-Mexico border crossings.

'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in the middle of the night, she discovered her mom wasn’t coming with her.Her mom told her that she loved her very much right before the boat got pushed into the water.“I thought she…