A Guatemalan woman and her son, who were separated in May at the United States border with Mexico, were reunited early Friday at a Maryland airport after she sued in federal court for his return.

Inside the airport, Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia wrapped her 7-year-old son, Darwin, in a blanket and cried as she hugged him, according to video captured by an immigrant legal services group that assisted her.

“No one is going to separate us again,” Ms. Mejia-Mejia later said at a news conference.



Their reunion comes just days after President Trump signed an executive order meant to end the separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefinite period.

Darwin’s whereabouts was not known to Ms. Mejia-Mejia, 38, at the time she filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Washington in an effort to challenge the government’s separation of the two, according to the complaint. On Thursday, federal authorities agreed to release Darwin to her, according to Mario Williams, Ms. Mejia-Mejia’s attorney. Ms. Mejia-Mejia was released from federal custody on June 15 after the legal services group, Libre by Nexus, put up her bond, said Mike Donovan, chief executive and president of Nexus Services Inc., which owns and funds Libre by Nexus and funds the law firm representing Ms. Mejia-Mejia.