About 30 families reunited from Queens to New York for the first time in decades in an emotionally charged reunion. “Before I died, I saw my son,” sighs Irene, the mother of the Hernández family, who had not seen each other in full for almost three decades. The son, Gabriel, now 44, moved to the United States as a teenager. Since then, he has started a family with 4 children, one of whom is a soldier in the American Navy.
His parents, Irene and Esteban Hernández, came from Mexico on a temporary visa obtained through the association Clube Migrante Chinelos Morenos in Nueva York. This association regularly organizes family reunification trips of only a few weeks to allow elderly parents who have not seen their offspring for 20, 25 or even 30 years to see their immigrant children who have become adults and who have remained without an American residence permit. Like other nationalities, illegal Mexicans in the United States work there, pay their taxes and sometimes own their homes. But for lack of papers, they cannot leave the country without risking being stranded in Mexico. Since 2017, the association claims to have brought together 5,000 families in New York.
2023-07-05 08:33:00
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