separated from their families<\/a> during prolonged detention inside the country. <\/p>\nThree recent migrants told The Associated Press that their journeys were sources of deep pain and uncertainty because they marked the possible start of permanent separation between loved ones. Associated Press photographers documented the human toll.<\/p>\n
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Jakelin Pasedo and her two young sons arrived in Miami in December 2024 and received refugee status while Pasedo cares for the boy and works cleaning offices. Their husband and father, Antonio Laverde, who left Venezuela in 2022, was arrested in June at his shared housing and detained for three months before asking to return to Venezuela. Fearing persecution if she goes back, Pasedo hopes to reunite with her husband in the U.S.<\/p>\n
Amavilia crossed from Guatemala in September 2023 and cares for two young children \u2014 breastfeeding and waking at 3 a.m. to cook lunches she sells for $10 while also selling homemade ice cream and chocolate\u2011covered bananas door to door. Her husband Edgar, who had lived and worked in South Florida for over 20 years, was detained on a 2016 warrant and deported to Guatemala on June 8, leaving the family unable to pay rent and reliant on donations at first.<\/p>\n
She and her husband declined to provide their last names because they are worried about repercussion from U.S. immigration officials.<\/p>\n
Amavilia fears police, urges her daughter to stay calm, and keeps going \u201centrusting myself to God,\u201d hoping to provide stability despite the uncertainty.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fell into despair. I didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d said Amavilia, 31. <\/p>\n
Yaoska, five months pregnant, lives in Miami with her two young sons, one a U.S. citizen, with a 24\u2011hour GPS supervision bracelet. She fled Nicaragua in 2022. Her husband, a political activist who faced threats and beatings at home, was detained at an appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and failed his credible fear interview.<\/p>\n
Yaoska spoke on condition of anonymity and requested the same for her husband to protect him from the Nicaraguan government.<\/p>\n
He was deported after three months of detention. Yaoska\u2019s work authorization runs until 2028, but she fears for her family\u2019s future and struggles to find stable work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so hard to see my children like this. They arrested him right in front of them,\u201d Yaoska said, her voice trembling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI — During the first Trump administration, families were forcibly separated at the border. Now parents inside the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[171760,23,966,793,790,3,111,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-342675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-171760","tag-america","tag-article","tag-general-news","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}