The 6-year-old immigrant girl heard on a secret recording from a detention facility has finally been reunited with her mother

The Houston Chronicle/Marie D. De Jes’s via Associated Press

• A little girl whose voice was heard in a recording from a detention facility has been reunited with her mother after they were separated under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.
• Six-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid could be heard on the recording persistently asking officers to call her aunt, rattling off the phone number she’d memorized.
• Her mother, Cindy Madrid, was released from a south Texas detention facility on Wednesday and reunited with her daughter in Houston early Friday morning.
• Madrid says she won’t dwell on their monthlong separation — but in an interview, she wondered aloud whether anything had been accomplished by it.

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A 6-year-old girl from El Salvador who became a face of the Trump administration’s practice of separating immigrant families at the border has finally been reunited with her mother.

Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid and her mother, Cindy Madrid, were separated after US authorities detained them June 13 for illegally entering the United States near Harlingen, Texas.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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