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Stories Vancouver: Johan and Immigration Officials

stories vancouver: The parents got to embrace the 15-month-old boy again Friday, five months after U.S. immigration officials forcibly separated the baby from his father at the Texas border.article continues below Trending Stories Vancouver High on Life vloggers die in Shannon Falls tragedy Downtown Eastside Canada's most famous junkie' comes clean Need a cute fix Meet the stars at Critter Care Wildlife Society Apparent red tide around Bowen Island may look scary, but it's not toxic Johan, who grabbed the world's attention when he appeared in a U.S. courtroom in diapers, at first didn't recognize his mom and dad after he was flown to San Pedro Sula, according to Vancouver Courier. I kept saying Johan, Johan, and he started to cry, said his mother, Adalicia Montecinos. That's where he took his first steps and spoke his first words. She broke down in tears as she talked about how her son had become a poster child for outrage over the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. His father soon won him over by playing ball. He suffered everything that we have been suffering, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.