(2) Bitterly she weeps in the night, Her cheek wet with tears. There is none to comfort her of all her friends. All her allies have betrayed her; They have become her foes. (3) Judah has gone into exile Because of misery and harsh oppression; When she settled among the nations, She found no rest; All her pursuers overtook her In the narrow places. (4) Zion’s roads are in mourning, empty of festival pilgrims; all her gates are deserted. Her priests sigh, Her maidens are unhappy— She is utterly disconsolate! (5) Her enemies are now the masters, Her foes are at ease, because the LORD has afflicted her for her transgressions; her infants have gone into captivity before the enemy.
"He (my son) didn't know where he was going, so he was looking at me like, 'Mom, help me, because I don't know where they're taking me,' Jocelyn, 31, said Wednesday, beginning to sob uncontrollably. "I didn't know what was going to happen to us. I spent the night crying because I wanted James to be protected, and I didn't know what was going to happen to him."
--Jocelyn, a mother seeking asylum after fleeing her native Brazil because of domestic violence.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/separated-border-mothers-story/story?id=55555232
(11) My eyes are spent with tears, My heart is in tumult, My being melts away over the ruin of my poor people, As babes and sucklings languish In the squares of the city.
"He didn't recognize me...My joy turned to sadness." --Mirce Alba Lopez, speaking of being reunited with her three year old son.
https://www.thisisinsider.com/immigrant-children-separated-dont-recognize-mothers-2018-7
(55) I have called on Your name, O LORD, From the depths of the Pit. (56) Hear my plea; Do not shut Your ear to my groan, to my cry!
“I am in bad shape because, when I was released, I was told I would be reunited with her (but I have not been yet)...I ask God that soon I will also be reunited with my daughter. I hope to experience this joy soon.” --Mario, in El Paso at a temporary migrant shelter just 10 blocks from where his daughter is living, with other children removed from their parents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/trump-migrants-children-border.html
(3) Even jackals offer the breast and suckle their young; but my poor people has turned cruel, like ostriches of the desert.
"My soul is broken. We made a huge sacrifice to come here asking for protection and instead of help, they are torturing us..."It's a living hell without my children. My children suffered during the journey. And now they suffer over there (in the US). They don't have liberty." --Ignacio Villatoro, a father who has taken sanctuary in a church in Tijuana, Mexico. His wife is being held in a detention center in Texas, an older child in a detention center in California, and three children (13, 6, and 2) in a New York state detention center. The family fled violence in Guatemala.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/us/guatemalan-immigrant-family-separated/index.html
"I want to thank everyone who made this possible, because for me it seemed impossible at one point...When it's in God's plans, everything is possible." --Rosayra Pablo-Cruz, a mother from Guatemala who was separated from 5 year old and 15 year old sons for two months while the children were staying in New York with a foster family.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2018-07-13/7-immigrant-children-are-reunited-with-mothers-in-new-york