Parents of the Ecuadorian girls thrown over the wall on the border with Mexico live in the United States

The parents of the two Ecuadorian minors who traffickers threw over the border wall between Mexico and USA, live in New York, reported this Friday the Foreign Ministry of the Andean country.

In a statement he insisted on describing as “repudiable” the case of the two minors “inhumanly abandoned by human traffickers on the border of the United States.”

And reported that, through the Consulate of Ecuador in Houston, he remains in permanent contact with the US immigration authorities, in order to verify that the two girls are being cared for and cared for, as well as to learn about the procedures that the authorities will adopt in this case.

As a result of these efforts, it is known that the girls will soon be assigned to the United States Division of Unaccompanied Minors / Office of Refugee Resettlement to begin the process of family reunification.

This process can take about six weeks until the sponsors (parents or relatives) present the required documentation, says the official note.

It points out that while the reunification process is taking place, the girls will remain in a shelter together with other minors, “where they will have all their needs covered and will be able to communicate daily with their parents”.

The Consulate in Houston maintained a dialogue with the minors and confirmed that they are in good health, “and that they contacted their parents, who currently live in the city of New York”, he indicated.

The Ministry of Foreign Relations and Human Mobility is pending the development of the case, but at the same time, it works with the necessary reserve and confidentiality to protect the rights of Ecuadorian migrants and especially of minors and adolescents.

The Foreign Ministry reiterated its condemnation and rejected “these attitudes of contempt for human life on the part of those who commit crimes by illegally trafficking with migrants” and urged families and parents to avoid exposing themselves or their children to the dangers that irregular migration violence entails.

Last Thursday, the White House was “alarmed” by the case of the two immigrant girls who were dropped by a trafficker from the top of the border fence in the state of New Mexico, and asked that the undocumented avoid putting themselves in the hands of the coyotes who “abuse” them.

In her daily press conference, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki referred to the video released Wednesday by Customs and Border Protection, which shows a man dropping two girls, ages 3 and 5 years, from the top of the border wall, which is 14 feet high (4.2 meters).