Two-year-old girl marooned in foster care in U.S. after parents deported to countries 1,500 miles apart

Earlier DU thread: A Mother and Father Were Deported. What Happened to Their Toddler?

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Source: The Independent

Two-year-old girl marooned in foster care in U.S. after parents deported to countries 1,500 miles apart

Mother returned to Venezuela by Trump administration and father jailed in El Salvador, leaving infant daughter in U.S. and government accused of ‘abduction’

Joe Sommerlad
Wednesday 30 April 2025 12:12 BST

A two-year-old girl has been marooned in foster care in the U.S. after her Venezuelan parents were deported to countries 1,500 miles apart.

Yorely Bernal Inciarte and Maiker Espinoza Escalona arrived with their child Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal in Texas on May 14 last year. Neither held valid entry documents so they immediately surrendered to immigration authorities, according to ABC News.

After being held in separate detention facilities in the Lone Star State for several months, able to communicate with one another only by phone, Inciarte was abruptly returned to Venezuela earlier this month – but without her daughter.

She was subsequently shocked to learn that Escalona had been sent first to Guantanamo Bay and then to the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador on March 30, meaning their child was without access to either parent.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-immigration-deportation-maiker-espinoza-escalona-b2742165.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-old-girl-marooned-foster-111211164.html