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భాజపా మహిళా ఎంపీలతో మోదీ భేటీ
భాజపా మహిళా పార్లమెంటు సభ్యులతో ప్రధాని నరేంద్రమోదీ ఆయన నివాసంలో భేటీ అయ్యారు. ఎంపీలతో కలిసి అల్పాహార విందులో పాల్గొన్నారు మోదీ.
భాజపా మహిళా ఎంపీలతో మోదీ భేటీ
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Published : Jul 12, 2019, 1:24 PM IST
నూతనంగా ఎన్నికైన భాజపా పార్లమెంటు సభ్యులతో విడతల వారీగా భేటీ అవుతున్నారు ప్రధాని నరేంద్రమోదీ. తాజాగా మహిళా ఎంపీలతో ఆయన నివాసంలో సమావేశమయ్యారు. అల్పాహార విందు ఇచ్చారు.
పార్టీ ఎంపీలందరినీ 7 బృందాలుగా విభజించారు. ఒక్కో బృందంతో ఒక్కోసారి భేటీ అవుతున్నారు మోదీ. ఇప్పటికే ఓబీసీ, ఎస్సీ, ఎస్టీ ఎంపీలు, గతంలో మంత్రులుగా పనిచేసిన ఎంపీలతో వేర్వేరుగా సమావేశమయ్యారు. ప్రస్తుతం భాజపా నుంచి గెలిచిన 41 మంది మహిళా ఎంపీలు హాజరయ్యారు.
ఆ ఇద్దరు మంత్రులూ..
మోదీతో ఎంపీలు నేరుగా సమస్యలను వినిపించేందుకు ఇదో చక్కని వేదికని పార్టీ భావిస్తోంది. ఈ సమావేశాల్లో కేంద్ర హోం మంత్రి అమిత్ షా, పార్లమెంటరీ వ్యవహారాల శాఖ మంత్రి ప్రహ్లాద్ జోషి కూడా భాగమయ్యారు.
గత 16వ లోక్సభ సమయంలో పార్లమెంటు సమావేశాలకు ముందు రాష్ట్రాల వారీగా ఎంపీలతో భేటీ అయ్యేవారు మోదీ.
ఇదీ చూడండి: 'భారత వాయుసేనలో రఫేల్ మరో గేమ్ ఛేంజర్'
నూతనంగా ఎన్నికైన భాజపా పార్లమెంటు సభ్యులతో విడతల వారీగా భేటీ అవుతున్నారు ప్రధాని నరేంద్రమోదీ. తాజాగా మహిళా ఎంపీలతో ఆయన నివాసంలో సమావేశమయ్యారు. అల్పాహార విందు ఇచ్చారు.
పార్టీ ఎంపీలందరినీ 7 బృందాలుగా విభజించారు. ఒక్కో బృందంతో ఒక్కోసారి భేటీ అవుతున్నారు మోదీ. ఇప్పటికే ఓబీసీ, ఎస్సీ, ఎస్టీ ఎంపీలు, గతంలో మంత్రులుగా పనిచేసిన ఎంపీలతో వేర్వేరుగా సమావేశమయ్యారు. ప్రస్తుతం భాజపా నుంచి గెలిచిన 41 మంది మహిళా ఎంపీలు హాజరయ్యారు.
ఆ ఇద్దరు మంత్రులూ..
మోదీతో ఎంపీలు నేరుగా సమస్యలను వినిపించేందుకు ఇదో చక్కని వేదికని పార్టీ భావిస్తోంది. ఈ సమావేశాల్లో కేంద్ర హోం మంత్రి అమిత్ షా, పార్లమెంటరీ వ్యవహారాల శాఖ మంత్రి ప్రహ్లాద్ జోషి కూడా భాగమయ్యారు.
గత 16వ లోక్సభ సమయంలో పార్లమెంటు సమావేశాలకు ముందు రాష్ట్రాల వారీగా ఎంపీలతో భేటీ అయ్యేవారు మోదీ.
ఇదీ చూడండి: 'భారత వాయుసేనలో రఫేల్ మరో గేమ్ ఛేంజర్'
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART MUST CREDIT US BORDER PATROL
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Buda, Texas - 23 June 2019
1. Smartphone video of Byron Xol blowing out candle on 9th birthday
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Buda, Texas - 24 June 2019
2. Various of Sewell family, who are hosting Byron at party with piñata
3. Screen shot of family in Guatemala made into photo for Byron
4. Various of Byron speaking during video phone call to his dad David
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San Miguel Limón, Guatemala - 24 June 2019
5. Various of David Xol speaking to his son from Guatemala
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Buda, Texas - 24 June 2019
6. Various of Byron on phone to dad
7. Various of Byron and host parent Holly Sewell working on lego set
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San Miguel Limón, Guatemala - 24 June 2019
8. David Xol swings back and forth on hammock
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McAllen, Texas - 28 June 2018
9. US Border Patrol Handout video of the central processing facility, the same facility where David Xol was separated from his son Byron
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San Miguel Limón, Guatemala - 24 June 2019
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) David Xol, Father:
"Yes, If somebody had told me, if they had told me sign this and your son will stay here, I'll never had sign it. Then we were separated. They snatched him from my hands."
11. Various of David Xol and another one of his sons in house
12. Pictures of Byron while he is in United States
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) David Xol, Father:
"I don't know what is going to happen but do not lose the sense that we are your parents, your mom is in Guatemala, I'm here."
14. David standing outside house
15. Locator outside of town of San Miguel Limón, Guatemala, a truck passes by
16. Various of indigenous women and children walking on road
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Buda, Texas - 24 June 2019
17. Various of Holly Sewell with Byron and daughter Winifred
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McAllen, Texas - 24 June 2018
18. Various file video of migrant detainees being brought to federal courthouse for arraignments
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San Miguel Limón, Guatemala - 24 June 2019
19. Reverse angle of David Xol on hammock
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Buda, Texas - 24 June 2019
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Sewell, Host Parent:
"What we're doing isn't political, this is just human."
21. Various of Holly and Byron working with lego
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Holly Sewell, Host Parent:
"We've made promises to this family, we've grown to have a relationship with this family, we want to keep to our word with this family."
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San Miguel Limón, Guatemala - 24 June 2019
23. Various photos of Byron and his family, shot of Byron when he sustained a broken leg in federal detention
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Buda, Texas - 24 June 2019
24.SOUNDBITE (English) Holly Sewell, Host Parent:
"I think we've seen some of the coping through his defense mechanisms that have come to play. I mean it's, there's some definite trauma there."
25. Post-it note on microwave
26. Byron puts on papiere mache unicorn head
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San Miguel Limón, Guatemala - 24 June 2019
27. Drone aerial of people bathing and washing clothes in river
28. Religious procession marches through village
29. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) David Xol, Father:
"We love him a lot and we missed him, we have always missed him, we just love him very much."
30. Various of David speaking on video call with Byron
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Buda, Texas - 24 June 2019
31. Various of Byron on video call with dad
STORYLINE:
Fourteen months ago, Byron Xol was packed in a wooden crate by smugglers and shipped from Guatemala to the U.S., only to be grabbed immediately by border agents and ripped away from his father.
His dad was deported.
Byron remained, locked away with the thousands of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration.
More than a year after the practice ended, a small number of children like Byron remain in limbo, far from their families.
Byron spent his ninth birthday in central Texas, with a host family devoted to giving him a loving home.
His parents, meanwhile, passed the day a thousand miles away, in the gang-ridden forests Byron and his father, David, had tried to escape.
They have not seen their child in more than a year.
But they have hope.
A federal judge could soon decide whether to let the father return to the U.S. If he rejects the motion, Byron may be sent home to Guatemala.
Byron's first language was Q'eqchi, one of several dialects that trace back to Mayan times.
He was raised in San Miguel el Limón, a tiny and remote rural town. David, 27, worked a series of jobs as a laborer and construction worker.
He and his 23-year-old wife, Florinda, slept in one bed in their two-room, cinderblock-and-wood house; Byron and his two younger brothers slept in another.
They went to church almost every day.
David says he preached the word of God, as his father did.
His preaching caught the notice of gangsters who tried to recruit him; when he refused, because his faith forbids violence, they threatened him and his eldest son, he says.
On May 4, 2018, David and Byron left San Miguel to seek asylum in the United States.
David borrowed to hire a human smuggler, or "coyote," for about 6,000 US dollars.
They were smuggled through Mexico by truck. For part of the 14-day journey, they rode in a wooden crate.
At the Rio Grande, the coyote sent them and about 20 other migrants across the river in the middle of the night.
The Border Patrol was waiting.
David was charged with illegal entry on May 19, the day after they were detained.
Two days later, an officer presented him with a document he couldn't read. If he signed it, the officer said, he could be deported with Byron. David refused.
He says a second officer told him that if he tried to seek asylum, the two would be separated.
David would be detained for at least two years, while Byron would be given up for adoption.
Their only option was to sign the document and be deported together.
He signed, renouncing his asylum claim. He didn't know the document would allow the agents to take his son away.
Seven days later, he was deported.
David, meanwhile, found work chopping trees at a palm oil plant an hour's drive from San Miguel.
The debt he had undertaken to pay the coyote has grown from 6,000 to 8,000 US dollars.
His monthly salary at the palm oil plant is about 400 US dollars.
His payments on the debt take up almost all of that.
To pay for food, he worked extra hours.
Alerted to the Xols' case by news coverage, Ricardo de Anda, a human rights lawyer working with the American Civil Liberties Union, went to Guatemala to discuss an idea: David should petition to return to the United States, while Byron remained there. David agreed.
Byron had been sent to an old elementary school just outside Houston that had been converted to house 160 children.
Operated by the nonprofit Baptist Child and Family Services, the facility had beds, common areas, classes, phones to call family and lawyers, and three meals a day.
It was the first of four facilities where he would live over the next year.
De Anda wanted to get Byron out of the system, and into a real home.
Through other lawyers, he found a Matthew and Holly Sewell, who live in a spacious, five-bedroom house near Austin, Texas, with their two kids.
Watching the news last summer, the Sewells heard that children were being detained after their parents had been deported.
And they thought: Why not provide a real home for at least one child?
Though David and Florinda approved, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refused several requests from the Sewells to sponsor Byron because they weren't related to him and had no prior relationship with his family.
De Anda sued HHS in February. In April, a federal judge ordered HHS to consider the Sewells as sponsors.
The Sewells got the call: Byron was being flown to Austin, and they needed to bring a wheelchair.
A few weeks earlier, they had been told, Byron had broken his right leg playing soccer.
Holly Sewell requested medical records from the facility that she shared with The Associated Press.
They show that Byron's thigh fracture was misdiagnosed at one point as a broken ankle.
Several days passed after the injury before Byron placed in a full cast.
And the break was on Byron's growth plate, the soft area in his leg that had not yet hardened to bone.
If not treated properly, the break could stunt his growth.
The Sewells took him to a doctor specializing in pediatric foot injuries, and enrolled him in physical therapy.
As he recovered, the Sewells started to see more of his personality - his wide smile, his sense of humor - and his ability to adapt.
For 11 months in government facilities, the staff watching Byron wasn't allowed to hug him.
At his birthday party, he ran up to Holly several times for an embrace or to ride on her back.
"I say, 'Do you need a hug,' and the answer is always yes," Holly said.
David is one of 21 parents included in the American Civil Liberties Union's motion that they be allowed to re-enter the country and seek asylum.
The ACLU argues that David and the others were denied a fair chance to request asylum.
The government says if David and other parents want to be with their children, the government says, they should agree to have those children returned to them.
The case is scheduled to be heard Friday.
If the ACLU wins, David could be in the U.S. in a matter of weeks. He could eventually petition for the admission of Florinda and their other two children.
If it loses, Byron will most likely return to Guatemala.
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