Immigration
As a young child, you always want to be with your parents to be protected by them. In this case a 4 year old American citizen went to stay with her grandpa down in Guatemala for the winter. When she came back, the Washington airport wouldn't let her and her grandfather go through on the plane, because her grandfather was an illegal immigrant, as well as her parents. The littler girl and her little brother, age 3, are the only ones throughout their family that are legal in America. Her father had moved into America in 1996, because his family was very poor where he lived in Guatemala. It's not fair to the family that she has to be living somewhere away from her family and maybe never get to see them unless the family fights it off to win her back.
The family is very devastated that they have to go through this but it's what they have to do. If you were a parent and your child got separated from you, you wouldn't be to happy about what's going on. The young girl, age 4, isn't very happy that she has to live like this, because she's living far away from the people she loves. The only thing they can do at the time with the child is send her back home with her grandfather in Guatemala. The safest place would be with her grandfather, because if they decide to send her where she can easily get set up for adoption, they don't want that to happen to their little girl.
This is a quote coming straight from the father:
“This is very unfair because she is a citizen,” he said, “and she is a very little girl.”
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