An excerpt from the Atlantic -
Letters: ‘I Want to Grow Up to Be Someone That Fights for Families Like Yours’
Teenagers in California respond to the story of a mother and son separated at the border.
‘The Separation Was So Long. My Son Has Changed So Much.’
In September, Jeremy Raff reported on the story of Anita and Jenri, a mother and her six-year-old son. Anita and Jenri fled Honduras and crossed the Rio Grande on a raft near McAllen, Texas, in mid-June; they immediately turned themselves over to Border Patrol and asked for asylum. In accordance with Trump administration policy, agents separated Anita and Jenri; they were detained 25 miles apart from one another for a month before a lawyer helped them reunite.
Christsna Sot, an eighth grade teacher at Impact Academy of Arts in Hayward, California, showed Raff’s video to his students, who wrote letters to Anita and Jenri. Here is a selection of those letters.
https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2018/11/eighth-graders-respond-story-family-separation/574024/
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