Immigration for more than a day held the 9-year-old US citizen

9-year-old US citizen Julia Isabel Amparo Medina was detained on the way to school, where she was taken every day by a friend of the family along with 14-year-old brother of the girl and two other children. Medina was accused of providing false information about her identity and did not release 32 for an hour.

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The girl was heading in the car of family friend Michelle Cardenas from home in Tijuana, Mexico, to a school located right near the border in San Isidro, California. For her, it was a completely normal route, writes Time. Julia's mother told authorities about this. Medina and her brother are US citizens with US passports.

Because of traffic jams, Cárdenas told the children to walk across the border on foot, where Medina and her relative showed the border patrol officer their legal documents certifying American citizenship. Employees blamed the girl for not really being her, but for her cousin, saying that Julia did not look like the photo on her passport card. Brother Medina was forced to sign a document that she had lied about her identity.

After questioning, Medina was detained overnight and was returned to her mother 32 hours later, at which time the girl’s identity had been established.

"I was scared. I was sad because my mother or brother were not with me. I was completely alone,” Medina said of her experience in detention.

A Border Patrol spokesman told TIME that the girl provided "conflicting information" during the screening and was taken into custody "to ensure due diligence in confirming her identity and citizenship." The officer added that it is important to verify the identity of a child traveling without a parent or legal guardian.

According to an official familiar with the situation, Julia was detained for so long to make sure that she was not a victim of human trafficking.

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