Yolany Padilla, an asylum seeker from Honduras, is reunified with her six-year-old son Jeslin as Leta Sanchez (R) and Jorge Baron (L) look on at the Sea-Tac airport in Seattle, Washington, U.S., July 14, 2018. REUTERS/Tim Exton
(Reuters) - When Yolany Padilla was released from immigration custody in Seattle last week, she assumed she would be quickly reunited with her 6-year-old son, who had been taken from her at the U.S.-Mexico border two months earlier.
But caseworkers at Cayuga Centers in New York, where the boy had been placed, told her lawyer that the government’s vetting process for reunification would take time. Fingerprint collection and analysis alone could take 60 days, and there would also be background checks of all the adults with whom she and her son would stay. It would likely be weeks before her son could be returned to her.
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