In the USA, a one-year-old boy appeared in court and voluntarily agreed to leave the country

In Arizona, a one-year-old child appeared before the migration court. The boy was present at the hearing without his parents, drank from a bottle, played ball, periodically said "agu" in surprise, and at the end of the hearing burst into tears.

The court considered the issue of the child's presence in the United States. Little Johan came to the states from Honduras. The boy's father had already been deported back to his homeland, and the fate of the child was being decided at the trial.

The judge who conducted the hearing said it was hard to ask the lawyer if the defendant understood the essence of the case.

As a result of the hearing, it was decided that the boy would voluntarily leave the country.

Due to the "zero tolerance" policy adopted by Donald Trump, families are separated when crossing the US border illegally. Children and their parents are kept in different migration centers. The number of children separated from their families varies from two to three thousand, and less than half of them are on the way to reuniting with their parents.

As for court hearings, children appear before judges without parents, and sometimes even without lawyers. In 90 percent of cases, babies are deported to their home countries. Often, children either do not know English, or do not even know how to speak at all, but they must represent themselves in court on their own. At one of the hearings in Phoenix, a five-year-old boy from Guatemala, when asked how old he was, simply showed five fingers. He was also separated from his father, who had previously been deported to his homeland.