A mother's happy day: military spouse deported by Trump returns to family

[Judi Lynn]

Wife of a decorated veteran who was forced to break up her family in 2018 is one of the first beneficiaries of Biden’s program

Richard Luscombe in Miami
@richlusc
Sat 8 May 2021 02.00 EDT

Three years ago Alejandra Juarez fell victim to Donald Trump’s cruelty as the wife of a decorated US Marine Corps veteran and mother of two young US citizen daughters was deported to Mexico under the former president’s zero-tolerance immigration policies.

On Saturday Juarez will rejoin her family in Florida as one of the first beneficiaries of a humanitarian program set up by Joe Biden’s administration to reunify parents Trump separated from their children.

But while Juarez’s Mother’s Day weekend reunion with daughters Pamela, 19, Estela, 11, and husband Temo will close a lengthy, painful journey of isolation and depression, she sees it as a door opening for other families torn apart by deportation.

“I’m happy this is behind me and my family, and hoping this will lead to a permanent solution not only for military spouses like myself, but for everyone,” she told the Guardian from Mérida, Mexico, where she has been living since being forced from her home in Davenport, Florida, in 2018.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/08/military-spouse-deported-trump-returns

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[niyad]

1. I remember this story. Very happy for them.