Watch: 6-Year-Old Girl, Alone, Breaks Through Immigration Noise With A Phone Number
"First, I want to take a bath. A really hot bath," she tells her cousin over the phone.
by Shannon Van Sant
Jun 22, 2018
3 minutes
As the other kids cry inconsolably on an audio recording of migrant children, 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid can be heard pleading for someone to call her aunt — reciting the number in Spanish.
Jimena is from El Salvador, and had just crossed into the U.S. before she was detained and separated from her mother.
In the , kids between are screaming and wailing for their parents. The audio was secretly
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