![]() ![]() ![]() So when Jones - who married and now has three young children named Oscar, Joaquin and Sofia - thinks about how families have been separated at the border under the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy and how they're being detained in detention centers, she said she "weeps." "And those feelings are still very vivid." I was never separated from my mother, but that was a very real fear," she said. Jones was born in the U.S., but at just 3 years old she said she knew the meaning of "La Migra" - immigration law enforcement - and she and her mother "were always looking over our shoulders," wondering "who's going to take us away." She said she did it to escape the violent civil war in El Salvador, where people were being killed in the streets. SALT LAKE CITY - Karim Jones said her mother was 19 when she crossed the border illegally 31 years ago, carrying her in her belly. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story. ![]() Only for your personal, non-commercial use. ![]()
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