BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mother rushed toward her son the second he stepped off the jetway. Then she teared up. In the waiting area of Gate C14 at Baltimore Washington International Airport, she wrapped a blanket around him, cradled his head in her arms and wept. ‘I love you,’ she said in Spanish, between sobs. It had been more than a month since Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia had seen her 7-year-old son, Darwin. Authorities, she said, separated them at an immigration holding facility in Arizona days after they crossed the US-Mexico border. This week, the 38-year-old Guatemalan mother sued several government agencies and top Trump administration officials, asking a federal judge to order authorities to release her son. Lawyers announced in court Thursday [6-21-18] that an agreement had been reached just minutes before a hearing in the high-profile case was to start. A few hours later, Darwin was released from a shelter in Phoenix, Arizona, and headed toward Washington, where his mother had traveled to make her case in federal court. Mejia met her son at the Baltimore airport gate early Friday, accompanied by members of her legal team, who broadcast a live video of the tearful reunion on Facebook. By the time she and her son made it to baggage claim, where a throng of reporters waited, Mejia was smiling as they walked side by side. But she told reporters she could tell her son was still sad. Darwin looked up at his mother, his lip quivering. She leaned down and kissed him on the cheek.”
-Catherine E. Shoichet, “She got her son back after suing the Trump administration,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 22, 2018 7:25 am