Migrant families separated under Trump face elusive quests for reparations under Biden
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Fernando Arredondo was fighting both his deportation and suicidal thoughts. He had developed a urinary tract infection and hives, lost eight pounds and fallen into a deep depression.
Arredondo was detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia after being separated from his then 12-year-old daughter Andrea along the U.S.-Mexico border, where they had tried to seek asylum at a port of entry following the murder of his 17-year-old son in their native Guatemala.
"I cried every day. I asked God, 'What's going to happen to me? What's going to happen to my family?'" Arredondo recently told CBS News in Spanish. Like hundreds of other parents, he spent months in U.S. immigration detention before being deported to Guatemala in August 2018 without his family.
