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A Salvadoran woman in Texas has waited more than 20 years to reunite with her son. A lawsuit could keep them separated.

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According to this article The Texas Tribune, by URIEL J. GARCÍA

“On a chilly night in January 2000 in a remote town in northern El Salvador, 17-year-old Jesús kissed her sleeping 14-month-old son’s head and turned to her mother. “Please take care of him,” she said, before walking out of the house to join a small group of migrants on their way to the United States.

As a single mother, she said she couldn’t afford to raise him, so she decided to migrate to Austin, where her father lived and worked in construction. As a rape victim, she said she wanted to leave her hometown because the man who had raped her — which resulted in her getting pregnant with her son — lived there, too. She said she never reported him to the police because she had no faith in the country’s criminal justice system.”

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