Meyling del Socorro Obregón Leiva, mother of the 10-year-old Nicaraguan boy who was abandoned at the border by a coyote earlier this month, was released by the people who allegedly held her hostage in Mexico, a relative reported Wednesday.
"My sister has been released,
thank you dear God for this happiest moment of my life
, what a great news I have received," said Misael Obregón, the woman's brother, through a video on YouTube this Wednesday.
Obregón Leiva and his son Wilton Gutiérrez were deprived of their liberty in Mexico, shortly after being returned from the United States by the authorities of that country when they crossed the border irregularly.
The 10-year-old boy managed to continue the trip alone
, after his uncle Misael Obregón paid $ 5,000 for his ransom, as explained by the man who lives in Miami, Florida.
But Meyling Obregón had to wait for them to release her, while her son continued on the road without her.
[He left with his mother, but did not arrive with her: relatives of the migrant child who was left "dumped" at the border tell how he got there]
The Nicaraguan woman preferred not to talk about her kidnapping when asked about the issue in an interview with Univision Noticias this Wednesday afternoon: "I don't want to talk about it right now, maybe I'm going to take a while," Meyling told them. Obregón through a phone call.
Wilton Gutiérrez and his mother, Meyling Obregón Leiva, in an image shared by the family Courtesy
When asked how she had managed to get out, she replied: “I was watching the news, I don't know, I couldn't explain, they just told me to enlist,
that it wasn't convenient for them to have me there
and that they were going to drop me off somewhere else. they went to leave a part alone, abandoned ”.
It is likely that by then the alleged hostages had seen on the news the viral images of Wilton Gutiérrez asking for help from a border agent.
Through tears, the boy told the agent who found him walking alone in southeast Texas that the people he had crossed
with had "dumped" him.
The moment captured by the agent's body camera has become a symbol of the hardships unaccompanied children suffer when trying to cross the border.
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Finally, Meyling Obregón was taken to the border point, where she turned herself in to the US authorities and asked them for protection.
"From what they told me, they are going to give me asylum," he
said in a video call with the aforementioned medium.
Wilton Gutiérrez's case took a turn this week when it was revealed that his father, Lázaro Gutiérrez, had requested his repatriation to Nicaragua, through the consulate of that country in Houston, Texas.
Despite the fact that the man had previously expressed his wish that his son remain in the United States.
"If he is fine there, let's say, I would ask them to help him and hand him over to the uncle,"
Gutiérrez said on Saturday.
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On the other hand, Misael Obregón has said that he wants the child to stay in the United States and, according to Noticias Telemundo,
he has already signed the request for family reunification
for the US government to hand it over to him.
The possibility of her son returning to Nicaragua is something that distresses Meyling Obregón.
This Wednesday afternoon she was finally able to speak with him from the shelter where he is located in Brownsville, Texas.
"I told him not to worry, not to cry, that everything was going to be fine and that we were going to be together soon
,
"
said the mother.
Nicaraguan woman Meyling Obregón and her 10-year-old son Wilton Gutiérrez in an undated photograph shared by the family.
[On video: A coyote throws two girls off the border wall before fleeing]
On the other hand, the Nicaraguan consul in Houston, Samuel Trejos, confirmed to Noticias Telemundo on Tuesday the intention of the government he represents to repatriate Wilton Gutiérrez.
"We consider that the family is the fundamental nucleus of society, as long as there is a father who asks for it, we are obliged to support the child, the father, the family," Trejo said in a telephone interview.
Unaccompanied migrant child rescued by Border Patrol east of the city of Rio Grande, Texas Anjel Hernandez via Facebook
The case has gained notoriety in Nicaragua, where the vice president, Rosario Murillo, has publicly supported the demand that Wilton Gutiérrez return to the country, something that has divided public opinion there.
While his uncle in Florida
said after having spoken with Wilton Gutiérrez that the boy wants to stay with him
.
He also claimed that Lázaro Gutiérrez mistreated his sister and nephew.
“I sincerely ask Rosario Murillo to put her hand on the conscience of not doing more harm to the child than she has already done to him, the child was very traumatized when I told him that the Government of Nicaragua loved him. take back, "said Misael Obregón in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
