The mother and her children agreed to share their stories but asked for their faces not to be shown and for their location in the US not to be revealed. The daughters, who are represented by Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), also asked to be identified only by pseudonyms to protect their safety because their asylum cases are still pending.
Two days before our first in-person interview, they learned they’d be among the first families rejoined in a push by a Biden administration task force to reunite families who were separated under the Trump administration.