Mother and son are reunited after 45 days of separation under Trump’s policy
JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF
An Immigrant mother who asked to be identified by the initials W.R. cradled her 9-year-old son, A.R., during a press conference at the Brazilian Worker Center in Boston.
After they were separated at the Mexican border in Arizona, the 35-year-old Brazilian mother was detained in an enclosure with other mothers while her 9-year-old son was held separately with other children. The only way they could see each other, she said, was by looking through a small window.
The first night, because he was new, the other children allowed the 9-year-old to stay at the window and look at his mother. He put his hand to the surface and cried.
For the next 2 ½ days, she and the other mothers took turns looking through the window at their children and mouthing words of comfort to them.
“What did I do with my life?” she remembers thinking.
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