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Meylin Obregon Soon to be Reunited with Her Son
The child’s father has withdrawn his custody request, opening the way for mother and son to be reunited within a few days.
Nicaraguan asylum seekers Meylin Obregon
and her ten-year-old son have lived through intense drama since leaving their home in southeastern Nicaragua. They are from
Muelle de los Bueyes, a municipality in Nicaragua’s South Caribbean department. Now, after many weeks, their journey may have reached a happy conclusion.
Lazaro Gutierrez, the boy’s father, has dropped his custody petition from Nicaragua. This decision allows the US immigration authorities to speed up the reunification process. This means mother and son will at last be reunited.
Nicaraguan migrant Meylin Obregon Leiva reappeared on Wednesday, April 14
th. Her brother affirmed on April 8th that she was in the hands of kidnappers, who were holding her for ransom in Mexico.
Meylin is the
coyotes in a desolate border region of the US, near the Rio Bravo in Texas. He had crossed the border illegally. The boy’s case went viral when a border patrol agent posted a video of the boy pleading for help. “I was with a group coming to turn themselves in, and they left me behind. I came here to ask for help,” the little boy exclaims tearfully in the video clip.
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