Girl, 4, Reunited with Family After Communications Mix-Up

CNN: Four-year-old Emily Ruiz flew first class from Guatemala to the United States on Wednesday for a tearful reunion with her mom and dad and younger brother. Immigration officers treated her like royalty, said her lawyer, David Sperling. After her plane landed in Florida, one officer called her the "princess of Miami," he said. She was hugging her parents before too much longer. "Mission accomplished," Sperling said on Twitter. The royal treatment and happy ending came nearly three weeks after the girl, a U.S. citizen, was unable to re-enter the United States because of a possible communication mix-up. Emily, the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants living in New York without documentation, had spent five months recuperating from asthma while visiting with her grandparents in Guatemala, Sperling said. When her grandfather accompanied her on a flight back to the United States on March 11, he was stopped by a customs officer at Dulles International Airport in suburban Virginia for an immigration violation dating back some 20 years, the lawyer said.