For the first time today, he saw his daughters via video call after they arrived at Miami International Airport on humanitarian parole last Friday and did not hand them over to their aunt and godmother, who then told us : “I have been here for 9 years without seeing them and they are suffering there”.
Elvia Guadalupe González Soto, the mother, says of Venezuela: “When the immigration official presents the paper, the document that we ask for in court, tells him that it is not a legal guardianship, it is not ‘is only an accompanying authorization and the responsibility of my sister there but not legal’.
For this reason, since Friday, her two daughters remain in a juvenile detention center with other children.
“In the center where they are, there are other children who speak Spanish, but they don’t know why they are there. They came on the same flight with two children, one 9 and the other 14, how do you approve of the children entering and not the parents?
Avelino Gonzalez, an immigration lawyer, says: “It shows you that the program is not working, it’s so flawed that it gives everyone access to the last resort and as a last resort it can be broken. There is no one watching during the stages. All this because no one is watching that during the journey the girls will not be able to come with their mother”.
“I had to take them to the airport. Wasn’t it enough if he was there? That’s what they told me, they would just take them to the family reunification center and there, as a mother, I could pick them up,” she said.
This weekend mother and her husband filled out her parole application and asked for an expedited process so that due to the detention of her daughters, they will speed up the process and allow her to arrive in the United States more quickly to release her from detention. center of West Palm Beach.