Last Thursday, the White House was “alarmed” by the case of the two immigrant girls whom a trafficker dropped from the top of the border fence in the state of New Mexico.
The parents of the two Ecuadorian minors whom human traffickers threw across the border wall between Mexico and the United States, live in New York, the Andean country’s Chancellery reported on Friday.
In a statement, he insisted on calling the case of the two minors “inhumanely abandoned by human traffickers on the U.S. border” “repudiable.”
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The Chancellery reported that, through the Ecuadorian Consulate in Houston, it is in constant contact with the US immigration authorities, in order to check that the two girls are cared for and cared for, as well as to know the procedures. which the authorities must adopt in this case.
As a result of these arrangements, it is known that the girls will soon be assigned to the Unaccompanied Minors Division / U.S. Refugee Resettlement Office to begin the family reunification process.
This process can take about six weeks for sponsors (parents or relatives) to submit the required documentation, the official note says.
He points out that while the reunification process takes shape, the girls will stay in a hostel next to other minors, “where they will have all their needs covered and will be able to communicate daily with their parents.”
The Consulate in Houston held a dialogue with the minors and found that they are in good health, “and that they contacted their parents, who currently live in New York City,” he said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility is pending the development of the case, but at the same time, works with the necessary reservation and confidentiality to protect the rights of Ecuadorian migrants and especially children and adolescents.
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The Chancellery reiterated its condemnation and rejected “these attitudes of contempt for human life by those who commit crimes of illicit trafficking in migrants” and urged families and parents to avoid exposing or exposing their children. to the dangers posed by irregular migration.
Last Thursday, the White House was “alarmed” by the case of the two immigrant girls whom a trafficker dropped from the top of the border fence in the state of New Mexico, and called on the undocumented to avoid putting -be 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 the Office of Customs and Border Protection, which shows a man dropping two girls, 3 and 5 years, from the top of the border wall, which measures 14 feet high (4.2 meters).