Brothers Reunited: Five Hopeful, Fraught Days Inside America’s Immigration Crisis [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Alicia Doktor 8/13/184:00 AM

Yordi, 20, is wan after a harrowing escape from horrors in his home country, Honduras.

It is mid-July. He sits in a corporate ICE detention facility in rural Folkston, Georgia, staring into a computer screen that connects him to his 29-year-old brother Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman, thousands of miles away in Seattle.

Tears well in Yordi’s eyes as Suamhirs explains how Atlanta’s immigration court works. Almost no one is released pending an asylum claim – even in a case like Yordi’s. Immigration officials have deemed the young man as having a “credible fear” of persecution back home, the basis of an asylum claim and typically cause for release.

[For more on this story by Daniel Heimpel, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...gration-crisis/31900]

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