Separated Families Were Allowed to Hug on the Riverbed of the Rio Grande—for 3 Minutes

Posted on AllSides October 31st, 2019
From The Left

Last week, Miriam Pallares boarded a bus in Oklahoma City with her six-year-old daughter and rode through the night to El Paso, Texas for a three-minute hug with family she hadn’t seen in years.

The mother and daughter were among 2,500 people participating in a rare event in which US Customs and Border Protection opens a gate in the fence separating El Paso from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, allowing families to briefly reunify. Hugs Not Walls, or Abrazos No Muros, was started in the spring of 2016 by non-profit Border Network...

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/separated-families-were-allowed-to-hug-on-the-riverbed-of-the-rio-grande-for-3-minutes/

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