An Indian woman in the United States is separated from a five-year-old son with a disability: report

People are participating in a protest against a recent US immigration policy of separating children from their families when they enter the United States as undocumented immigrants. (Source: Reuters)

An Indian woman, seeking asylum in the United States after illegally crossing Mexico to join America, was separated from her five-year-old son, said a media. 19659004] The Trump administration's controversial "zero tolerance" policy of separating immigrant parents and their children from the US border resulted in the separation of nearly 2,000 children from their parents and guardians

Bhavan Patel , 33 Years. The Washington Post has granted a $ 30,000 bail by an Arizona court Tuesday,

However, it was not immediately clear if she could join her disabled son.

This is the first known case of a national Indian who has been separated from his child in recent months as part of the "zero tolerance" policy. So far, more than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents after being stopped by US law enforcement after crossing the border illegally.

After a national scandal, Trump signed a decree that ended the practice. The Post did not reveal when she was arrested.

Patel was sitting in an immigration audience hall, a tiny lonely figure in a faded green prison uniform, according to the report. She fled the political persecution in Ahmedabad, India, traveling to Greece and Mexico before illegally crossing the US border with her five-year-old disabled son, Patel and his lawyer at a bond hearing

. . She wrung her hands constantly, says the daily.

"His son is not doing well," said his lawyer Alinka Robinson, while a telephone translator relayed the proceedings in Patel in his native language, Gujarati.

Robinson asked Judge Irene C Feldman to grant her client a $ 10,000 bail so that she could "find her son".

The US Attorney for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the court that Patel was a risk. Subsequently, the judge questioned her on her way to the United States and the fact that she had paid a smuggler.

"An asylum officer had already had a" credible fear "of being hurt or killed. She told the judge that her brother had arranged her pbadage and that she never paid a smuggler, "reports The Post.

The judge seemed skeptical and fixed the bond at $ 30,000, making Patel one of the few Eloy parents to have separate According to information from inmates, there was no official figures indicating that Indians would be detained in the US prison after crossing the border illegally.

According to recent reports, there are more than 200 illegal Indians – most of Punjab and Gujarat – in four federal prisons in Washington, New Mexico, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The Embbady of India in Washington DC and its consulates in Houston, New York and San Francisco have sent their senior diplomats to all of these federal prisons to verify the facts and offer consular access to its citizens.

The public outcry in the wake of images and stories of children caught in the midst of Trump's immigration policy sparked a fierce debate in the United States.

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