Guatemalan asylum-seeker sues Trump administration for taking her 7-year-old son

Guatemalan asylum-seeker sues Trump administration for taking her 7-year-old son and REFUSING to say where he is – and he screamed 'Mama! Mama!' in her only phone call from immigration jail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5861801/Guatemalan-asylum-seeker-sues-Trump-administration-taking-7-year-old-son.html

A Guatemalan asylum-seeker sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for 'forcibly' separating her from her seven-year-old son after they crossed the border in May. Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia was never indicted for illegally entering the country, but officials won't tell where her son Darwin is, according to her lawsuit filed Tuesday in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. against 6 federal agencies and 10 senior officials.

Mejia-Mejia's lawsuit is believed to be the first to challenge the government's removal of a specific child from a parent in the course of upholding federal immigration law. It opens up a new legal front in what has become an all-out battle with the White House on one side and a combination of Democratic lawmakers and immigration activists on the other.

In the suit she describes a heart-wrenching scene when uniformed agents entered her holding cell and took away the boy, who screamed for his mother. Mejia-Mejia and her son entered the U.S. near San Luis, Arizona on approximately May 19 and turned herself in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, requesting asylum because of spousal abuse at the hands of a violently alcoholic husband who she says threatened to kill her.

She says immigration officials took the boy after they spent two days in 'la hielera' – the 'cooler.'