José, a man represented by our Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative in his asylum case was today reunited with his son thanks to @ACLU. Here’s how the Trump administration tore apart this family: 
1. José fled Honduras with his 3-year-old son because he feared for their lives. The two had rarely been apart, and they came to the country together — with José’s identification and his son’s birth certificate. They presented themselves at a port of entry seeking asylum.
2. Despite the government's insistence that people who present themselves to immigration officials at ports of entry would not be split apart from their children, this, officials took his son away.
3. José and his son were taken to a temporary holding facility. At some point, José requested to leave his cell to accompany his son to the bathroom.
4. As José held the boy’s hand to walk toward the bathroom door, an immigration official took the boy, who began to cry for his father. They were not given a chance to say goodbye, nor was José told where his only son was going.
5. For weeks, José only knew that his son was in a shelter in Arizona — not the name of the shelter, and no phone number at which to reach him.
6. Jose was taken to Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, thousands of miles away from his son, where our lawyers met with him to help him fight his asylum case and try to reunite with his son.
7. José’s reunion with his son is cause for celebration, but they’ll still face many hurdles in their effort to find a safe life together.
8. There are hundreds of families still separated due to the Trump administration’s disastrously cruel policies. #FamiliesBelongTogether. ajc.com/entertainment/…
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