On Saturday, tears streaming down her face, the 35-year-old had her wish finally come true -- if only for three minutes. Laura Avila hugs her own daughter after getting to see her mother for three minutes at a specially organized event on the US-Mexico borderAt 12:27 pm, she hesitantly walked toward a heavy metal gate on the US-Mexico border in San Diego that a US Border Parol agent had opened only minutes before, burying her face in her mother's embrace. Trump vowed during the presidential campaign to build a wall along the US-Mexico border and to deport millions of illegal immigrants from the country. "It was like touching the sky," his elated father, Eduardo Hernandez, told AFP through the fence after the brief reunion. But since 2013, on only four occasions -- including this Saturday -- has the large gate along that border been opened to allow a lucky few families chosen by Border Patrol to physically embrace.

Source: Bangkok Post November 20, 2016 06:00 UTC