MADRID, Spain.- A Cuban mother sent her three-year-old daughter to the United States with a humanitarian parole, but without the required parental authority documentation. For this reason, when she arrived in the US, the girl, named Isabel Iliana Quiñones, was separated from her family by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers.
According to the journalist Mario J. Pentón, the girl “is in the worst prospects, because they can send her to a shelter.”
The reporter also spoke with the girl’s relatives in the United States, notably affected by the situation.
“We are your family. We don’t want her with strangers… The girl she’s not going to adapt outside of us. We have no life with that since yesterday,” said the minor’s great-aunt through tears.
During his YouTube program, Mario J. Pentón explained that the girl’s mother could not travel because she has another son in Cuba who has not yet received confirmation of the parole and sent her daughter with a document that temporarily ceded the legal custody of his uncle, with whom he traveled to the United States.
The lawyer Ismael Labrador explained to Pentón that unfortunately these cases are recurring and recalled that these documents made in Cuba are not valid in the United States.
The US authorities are very demanding that the documentation be in order, because unfortunately there is trafficking of minors, said Labrador.
The lawyer, from the Gallardo Law Firm, which is dealing with the case of Isabel Iliana Quiñones, added that the relatives will have to prove ties, links between them, and prove that the girl was not brought to the United States for human trafficking.
Labrador urged parents applying for parole that in no case send their children to the United States alone, unless they have all the documents in order, validated in the United States and, in cases in which the person responsible is a legal guardian , custody has to be permanent.
