U of I students help reunite family
U of I students help reunite family
and last updated 2020-12-31 09:37:17-05
MAGIC VALLEY, Idaho â For her protection, the asylum seeker in this story will be referred to as FNC.
Thanks to students at the University of Idaho, a woman from Guatemala seeking refuge in the United States was able to reunite with her children after years of separation. One of our priorities from the start was to get her out of detention. She had been in detention for about a year and a half. She had been separated from her family for that entire time. And to all of us, that seemed like a grave injustice, Geoff Heeren, Director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Idaho, said.