In an exclusive for The Daily Mail the father of the now infamous crying girl, Yanela Denise, 2 said she wasn’t separated from her mother by border agents.
The father of the Honduran girl who became the face of the family separation crisis has revealed that he still has not been in touch with his wife or daughter but was happy to learn they are safe.Â
Denis Javier Varela Hernandez, 32, said that he had not heard from his wife Sandra, 32, who was with his two-year-old daughter Yanela Denise, for nearly three weeks until he saw the image of them being apprehended in Texas.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Hernandez, who lives in Puerto Cortes, Honduras, says that he was told yesterday that his wife and child are being detained at a family residential center in Texas but are together and are doing ‘fine.’
‘You can imagine how I felt when I saw that photo of my daughter. It broke my heart. It’s difficult as a father to see that, but I know now that they are not in danger. They are safer now than when they were making that journey to the border,’ he said.
Now, of course, this will be a problem for TIME magazine who is putting this young girl on the cover as a way to bash Trump.
TIME magazine’s new cover: “Welcome to America.”
Go deeper: The biggest blunder of the Trump presidency https://t.co/eE5nk2SWLo pic.twitter.com/JwURItWnja— Axios (@axios) June 21, 2018
Hey @Koush,
Perhaps you should read The Daily Mail’s new article about what the girl’s father said really happened which just came out today: https://t.co/wk07LY6HCB
Have a nice day! pic.twitter.com/vOM42yAn1n
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) June 22, 2018
Seriously, read the article.
She left her husband and three kids without telling anyone to start a new life in the U.S.
Her husband did not approve of it as she left them all.
That’s called abandonment. https://t.co/SCztmOMJ6D
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) June 22, 2018
