FILE PHOTO: After being detained and released by law enforcement, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras and his son pass the time before beginning a bus journey to Louisiana at the Catholic Charities relief center in McAllen, Texas, U.S., April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican airline Volaris said on Friday it was offering free flights to reunite families separated by the “zero tolerance” immigration policy of U.S. President Donald Trump.
“It hurts us to see these children without their parents and it is our vocation to reunite them,” Volaris said in a statement.
The airline said it would work with authorities in the United States, Mexico and Central America to offer free flights on its pre-existing routes to reunite children with their parents. According to its website, Volaris flies to over 65 locations across Mexico, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
After facing an uproar at home and abroad, Trump bowed to intense pressure on Wednesday and signed an order ending the separation of children from their families while parents were prosecuted for crossing the border illegally.
This week, four major U.S. airlines asked the federal government not to use their flights to transport migrant children away from their parents.
Some of the over 2,300 children separated from their parents since mid-April have been flown to states far from the border area between Mexico and the United States, where their parents are being charged in immigration courts, according to media reports.
There have been some cases of immigrants being deported without their children. On Thursday, El Salvador demanded a seven-year old boy be returned to his father who was deported back to the Central American country this week.
(Reporting by Diego Ore, Writing by Michael O’Boyle, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
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