On Wednesday I told you the story of a 7-year-old child from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who is being held at a facility in Chicago, 2,000 miles away from her mother. The pair arrived near San Diego in November seeking asylum and the mother passed the initial asylum screening, indicating that she has a strong case. For reasons that still haven’t been explained, the mother and child were separated and they have only spoken by phone a handful of times in the intervening four months.