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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.
A screenshot from a video produced by ProPublica about 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid who had just crossed into the U.S. before she was detained and separated from her mother. An audio recording of Alison pleading for someone to call her aunt sparked national outcry and condemnation.

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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