Eight months after making the cover of Time magazine and briefly becoming the symbol of an unpopular immigration policy that didn't actually affect her, two-and-a-half-year-old Yanela Sanchez is now living in the greater Washington D.C. area with her mother as they await their next date in immigration court.
The iconic photo by Getty photographer John Moore depicted the young Honduran asylum seeker sobbing as she and her mother were taken into custody last summer at the U.S.-Mexico border.
It quickly became a rallying call for opponents of the Trump administration's now-defunct 'zero tolerance' immigration policy, which separated thousands of migrant children from their parents.
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez, 2 1/2, cries as her mother, Sandra, is searched by border officials near the U.S.-Mexico border in June 2018. The iconic photo by Getty photographer John Moore became a rallying call for opponents to the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez, 2 1/2, and her mother, Sandra, share a moment together in their Washington D.C.-area apartment in February 2019
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez is depicted on the July 2018 cover of Time magazine with an image of President Trump looming over her. The magazine later had to issue a retraction after writing that Yanela was one of thousands of children taken from their parents at the Southern U.S. border: She and her mother were never separated
Yanela's image was splashed on the cover of Time with a vivid red background and a looming figure of Trump standing over her. The caption read: 'Welcome to America.'
But the magazine cover quickly became a national punchline when DailyMail.com reported that immigration officials never actually separated Yanela from her mother, Sandra Sanchez.
At the time, her father, Denis Javier Varela Hernandez, told DailyMail.com from Honduras that he had not heard from Sandra for nearly three weeks until he saw the image of them being apprehended in Texas.
'You can imagine how I felt when I saw that photo of my daughter. It broke my heart,' he said in June. 'It's difficult as a father to see that, but I know now that they are not in danger. They are safer now than when they were making that journey to the border.'
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez, 2 1/2, and her mother, Sandra, giggle together in their Washington D.C.-area basement apartment, which they share with other immigrants
Honduran asylum seeker Sandra Sanchez carries her daughter Yanela Sanchez, 2 1/2, to their basement apartment on February 11, 2019 in the greater Washington D.C. area
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez plays (left) and eats (right) in the basement apartment she and her mother share with other immigrants on February 11, 2019 in the greater Washington D.C. area
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez, 2 1/2, eats in the basement apartment she and her mother Sandra Sanchez share with other immigrant
Time issued an apology for the cover story after writing that the girl had been taken 'screaming' from her mother by border officials.
But the damage was done. Trump and his supporters railed against what they said were 'phony stories of sadness and grief' built around a false narrative.
Now, months later, the controversial family separation policy has ended and the young girl and her mother are trying to carve out a life for themselves while they await their fate in America.
Moore followed the two, documenting their everyday lives over several days this week.
Honduran asylum seeker Sandra Sanchez carries her daughter Yanela Sanchez, 2 1/2, on February 11, 2019 in the greater Washington D.C. area
Honduran asylum seeker Sandra Sanchez holds her daughter Yanela Sanchez, 2 1/2, at an indoor play area on February 13, 2019 in the greater Washington D.C. area
Honduran asylum seeker Sandra Sanchez feeds her daughter Yanela Sanchez (left) and cuddles the girl (right) in their Washington D.C.-area apartment in February 2019
The series of images reveals the happy and mundane reality the girl is living in her newly adopted city: visiting local playgrounds, playing video games and giggling in her mother's lap.
Sandra told Moore that she and Yanela were initially held by U.S. immigration officials for 18 days in three different Texas facilities before being released while she awaited their court date.
Now she and her daughter live in a basement apartment that they share with other immigrants.
Honduran asylum seeker Sandra Sanchez cuddles her daughter, Yanela Sanchez, in their Washington D.C.-area apartment in February 2019
Honduran asylum seeker Sandra Sanchez sits with her daughter, Yanela Sanchez, at a playground on February 13, 2019 in the greater Washington D.C. area
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez, is photographed in Washington D.C. in February 2019
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez, is photographed in Washington D.C. in February 2019
Sandra does not have a work permit and is unable to pursue a job legally while she waits for their first immigration hearing.
She is also unable to pay for an attorney to work on behalf of her and her daughter – and despite the publicity around Yanela's image – they have not located a pro bono lawyer at this time.
A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) previously told DailyMail.com that Sandra was deported from the U.S. once before in 2013.
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez, is held by her mother, Sandra, while the two are taken into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border in June 2018
Honduran asylum seeker Yanela Sanchez, cries as her mother, Sandra, is searched by border officials near the U.S.-Mexico border in June 2018
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