PHOENIX- Despite certain measures taken to keep immigrant families together, one family is struggling to reunite with their disabled children, who they say remain in a local detention center.
Anthony Boone tells 12 News that his wife, 36-year-old Nadia Pulido, has lived in Arizona before, but got deported.
She stayed in Mexico, but because of a hostile situation threatening her life, she sought asylum at the Nogales border and was separated from her two kids, 6-year-old Michelle and 4-year-old Pablo.
“The oldest one is blind. She really needs her mother,” said Boone.
Pulido is currently at the Eloy Detention Center awaiting a court hearing in July.
“It’s been emotionally draining—emotionally, mentally,” said the Mexican the mother of two via phone. Her husband says he’s taken the required steps to help get his wife and step-children released, but there is still no word.
“I don’t understand. My wife isn’t a criminal. She didn’t hurt anybody. Just put like a monitor, ankle monitor. Instead we’re paying … I mean I don’t know how much they’re paying to hold her here, and they also pay for holding the kids also,” said Boone.
He is able to talk to his wife and visit his step-children frequently, but they just hope they can get some good news in Pulido's next court hearing.