Could you cope seeing your children for just three minutes every year? Separated Mexican families are given brief reunion at charity-run border opening... but Trump's wall is likely to end even that
Could you believe this headline?
They made the choice. So they abandoned their families, broke our laws coming here illegally, and we're the bad guy? Go back to wherever the hell they came from and they can be with their family 24 hours a day. Try pulling this crap in any other country around the world and see how many "family visits" they get. The United States simply cannot be the International Warehouse for every lost soul looking for greener pastures. What about the people waiting in line to immigrate here legally? How is that fair to them?
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In a scene that could potentially become non-existent under a Donald Trump presidency, Mexican families on either side of the US-Mexican border were briefly united Saturday for Universal Children's Day.
The touching reunions happened with the full cooperation of border control on each side of the fence that splits the US from its neighbor to the south.
One of Trump's main campaign promises was to build a wall between the two countries, and he reiterated his commitment to it recently on '60 Minutes.' He has also vowed to expel millions of undocumented Mexican immigrants.
Members of the Hernandez family tearfully reunite through the border at Playas de Tijuana
Gonzalez family members hug each other as they meet through the border fence
Relatives separated by immigration hug at an open gate on the fence along the two countries
The reunion, which allowed family and friends to hug and kiss for a few minutes, happened at the fence on the Tijuana-San Diego border.
The door opening was organized by pro-migrants NGOs and local authorities in coordination with the United States Border Patrol.
The gate, along Border Field State Park in California, was also opened for a few minutes in 2015 and 2013.
In August and November, the border at El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, was opened for exactly three minutes.
Relatives comfort each other along the Tijuana border during a humanitarian event
A family on the Mexican side chats with relatives after a brief open gate event - normally the mesh gate's openings are too small to allow people to touch
'We ask ourselves: 'What has happened to the U.S.?' We are going back to the 1960s, where we saw all this hatred, racism, and now this is 2016 and we haven't advanced at all,' activist Roberto Vivar told Reuters.
Trump's plan for a wall seems to have galvanized immigrants from Central America, fleeing poverty and war conditions, who are coming over in record numbers, hoping to seek amnesty in America before the dreaded wall may go up, according toThe Boston Globe.
Families shed tears after seeing each other during a brief softening of the border laws
A US border patrol agent opens a gate on the fence along the Mexico and U.S border as people wait to see their relatives
A woman looks through the wire mesh fence of the border (left); members of the Gonzalez family hug each other and are briefly reunited
Families, some of whom hadn't seen each other in years, had strong reactions to being briefly reunited
Touching scenes were everywhere as families were allowed to reunite through the border
Two members of the Hernandez family hug and cry as they are reunited on the border
Two members of the Hernandez family are overcome with emotion as they meet again
"A Trump presidency could bring "trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny" to the nation. Trump is a "con man" a "fake" and is not as wealthy as he claims and is unfit to be president."
