Texas has filed a lawsuit seeking to shut down the Central American Minors Program, which could allow the woman’s 22-year-old son join her in the U.S.
A woman from El Salvador and her son were among a group of migrants heading to the U.S. border near Huixtla, Mexico, in November.
Jesús asked to be identified by her middle name because she fears if she’s publicly identified her son may be targeted by gang members in El Salvador — where the country’s government recently suspended civil liberties after a spike in gang-related murders. Her son, Javier, is being identified by his first name only.
Last year, the Biden administration restarted an expanded version of the program. Javier’s case was reopened in 2019 as part of a settlement stemming from a lawsuit filed by immigrant rights organizations in federal court. “I have waited so long for my son to come to the United States, and I am losing hope,” Jesús said in a written statement to the judge. “My greatest fear is that the U.S. government will cancel the CAM Program again just like last time, and that, at the very last minute, my son will be prevented from joining me here in the United States.”
“I remember seeing a young, handsome man, very charming, and I noticed he looked like me,” she said. “I hugged him, we cried together. It was just a beautiful moment.”In 2015, her husband was listening to a Spanish-language radio news segment about the Central American Minors Program. Soon after he told Jesús about it, she called Refugee Services Texas, which helped her apply for the program.
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