Maynor tries to keep everyone's spirits up - a skill he's honed as a street vendor hustling to sell oranges in California to make enough money to feed himself and two sisters. But it's hard when his mom, Maria, who lives in Honduras, calls and cries tmsnrt.rs/30iwlrK 1/4 
The last time the sisters saw their mom was almost 3 years ago. They were caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border when what became one of the administration's most controversial policies rolled out: a crackdown on illegal crossings that led to thousands of family separations 2/4
After a few days in detention, a border agent came to take the girls away. Maria was bussed to an adult detention center and didn't know where her daughters were for nearly two weeks.
She was eventually told they'd been sent to a shelter in California near their brother 3/4
She was eventually told they'd been sent to a shelter in California near their brother 3/4
More than 2,700 families were separated between when Trump officially announced a 'zero tolerance' policy to prosecute all illegal border crossers in May 2018 and its abrupt reversal months later. Thousands were separated both before and after tmsnrt.rs/30iwlrK 4/4
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