A week ago, Yeni Gonzalez was in an immigration detention center in Arizona more than 2,000 miles from her children.
On Tuesday, the 29-year-old stood outside the social services agency in New York City where she had just seen her kids for the first time in 45 days, clutching a blue and white lollipop in her hand.
“I feel very happy because I just saw my children, and my daughter gave me that lollipop,” Gonzalez said in Spanish.
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