Last month, Los Angeles Times reporter Esmerelda Bermudez accompanied Hermelindo Che Coc, an asylum-seeker from Guatemala, as he was reunited with his six-year-old son. She recorded the exact moment that Jefferson met his father again after two months apart, a video that perfectly captures the human toll of the Trump administration’s migrant family separation policy. Take note of the young boy’s reaction:
Jefferson does not speak, or cry, or even hug his father back. “The boy had a vacant look in his eyes,†Bermudez wrote in the tweet that accompanied the video. “Also a cough, bruise on his eye & rashes all over his body.†In her account of the reunification, she reported that
Jefferson seemed to blame his father for the experience. “Papa, I thought they killed you,†he told his father while crying. “You separated from me. You don’t love me anymore?â€
The boy, sadly, is correct. His father is to blame.
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