The Daily Mail interviewed the husband of the migrant mother of the crying girl in the now world famous photo taken by Getty Images’ John Moore as they were apprehended by Border Patrol agents crossing illegally into the U.S. earlier this month.
The top photo has been used by the media and activists to pummel the Trump administration for its decision to start strictly enforcing immigration laws at the border by prosecuting all illegal border crossers, prompting children to be taken from their parents caught sneaking them in.
The husband said his wife left him and their three older children for a “better life” in the U.S. He said she was seeking political ayslum but he made no mention of any gangs or threats by the government, just that his wife wanted to live the American Dream. Photographs from Facebook posted by the Mail show a happy mother with her family driving a nice car. However, the husband says his wife left without telling him or giving him the chance to say goodbye to their daughter.
The father of the Honduran girl who became the face of the family separation crisis has revealed that he still has not been in touch with his wife or daughter but was happy to learn they are safe.
Denis Javier Varela Hernandez, 32, said that he had not heard from his wife Sandra, 32, who was with his two-year-old daughter Yanela Denise, for nearly three weeks until he saw the image of them being apprehended in Texas.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Hernandez, who lives in Puerto Cortes, Honduras, says that he was told yesterday that his wife and child are being detained at a family residential center in Texas but are together and are doing ‘fine.’
‘You can imagine how I felt when I saw that photo of my daughter. It broke my heart. It’s difficult as a father to see that, but I know now that they are not in danger. They are safer now than when they were making that journey to the border,’ he said.
Denis said his wife and daughter were never separated by border control agents and remain together.
He revealed that his wife had previously mentioned her wish to go to the United States for a ‘better future’ but did not tell him nor any of their family members that she was planning to make the trek.
‘I didn’t support it. I asked her, why? Why would she want to put our little girl through that? But it was her decision at the end of the day.’
He said that Sandra had always wanted to experience ‘the American dream’ and hoped to find a good job in the States.
Denis, who works as a captain at a port on the coast of Puerto Cortes, explained that things back home were fine but not great, and that his wife was seeking political asylum.
He said that Sandra set out on the 1,800-mile journey with the baby girl on June 3, at 6am, and he has not heard from her since.
More proof you cant beleive anything from a liberal leftists rag like TIME its no better them other liberal rags like NEWSWEEK,ROLLING STONE THE NEW YORKER this it the same rag that was telling its readers that Global Cooling and a New Ice Age was coming in the 1970’s and never consiter its kids issue TIME FOR KIDS it just gets them started into reading its lies
If anyone thinks revealing the truth about their propaganda is going to stop them from harvesting ignorant minds with it, you’ve got another think coming. Just like liberals ever starting to wonder why their party lies to them constantly, it ain’t happening.
She stole 6K from the family she abandoned only loved 1 of her 4 kids, annual per capita income about US $580 in Honduras. Cry me a river. I hope he finds a woman that will appreciate the comparative luxury she abandoned.
@Kitt: I hope she is sent back so Denis can kick her ass out and she can live on the streets. Pelosi and Schumer can send her checks.
@Deplorable Bill: I read the article where does it say she was deported in 2013?
@Kitt: I read it too…. I didn’t notice that.
@Deplorable Bill: If that is true, she is now a felon. The child should be returned to the safety of her father immediately and the mom separated from her and she can await sentencing alone.
TIME this is the liberal rag that insulted WW II vets with the Green Freaks version of Iwo Jima raising Tree in place of Old Glory and still tries to com pare apes and humans over this Darwin poppycock
@Kitt: #5
In the article in the Daily Mail, it says:
“A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has told DailyMail.com that Sandra had been previously been deported from the US in 2013.”
@Petercat:Her hubby must be used to a revolving door marriage.