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Except it all went wrong. The Border Patrol was waiting as they made their way from the border on May 26, and soon mother and son were in a teeming detention center in southern Texas. The next part unfolded so swiftly that, even now, Ms. Ortiz cannot grasp it: Anthony was sent to a shelter for migrant children. And she was put on a plane back to Guatemala.
I am completely devastated, Ms. Ortiz, 25, said in one of a series of video interviews last week from her family home in Guatemala. Her eyes swollen from weeping and her voice subdued, she said she had no idea when or how she would see her son again.
As the federal government continues to separate families as part of a stepped-up enforcement program against those who cross the border illegally, the authorities say that parents are not supposed to be deported without their children. But immigration lawyers say that has happened in several cases. And the separations can be traumatic for parents who now have no clear path to recovering their children.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/immigration-deported-parents.html
fuckers
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)human trafficking.
Self-correction - Don't think the money is going into the national treasury. It is going in Trump's pocket and his friends pockets.
malaise
(269,054 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)I hear crickets.
Fucking scumbags.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Fundamentalist Christians LOVE to adopt children from outside the US. I get the feeling Trump, whose base is fundamentalist Christians, is throwing people out of the country without their children so they can be classified as "abandoned" and, therefore, adoptable by Trump's base.
malaise
(269,054 posts)The Catholics and Church of England et al and the slave owners.
Cha
(297,317 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Kidnapped her child. Fucking criminals.
Initech
(100,080 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)to the 21st century nazi regime called ameriKKKa. They really don't care about all the pain they are causing. Really, really evil. LAST 8 years under President Obama, compared to this white backlash to brown peoples and all not, RW, white, male and female, the difference between blue skies and grey storm clouds. How sad.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)Trek4Truth
(515 posts)tblue37
(65,403 posts)snip
Critics say that Ms. Ortizs saga is the latest indication that the administrations new enforcement strategy was rolled out without adequate planning. The processing and detention of migrant families can involve three Homeland Security agencies Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services as well as the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. Poor coordination among them has made it hard to track children and parents once their paths diverge in the labyrinthine system.
I cannot convey enough how much utter chaos there is, said Michelle Brané, director of migrant rights and justice at the Womens Refugee Commission, a research and advocacy organization that monitors immigration issues. The government does not have a proper system in place to track families and coordinate.
In some cases, parents and children have gone weeks without being able to communicate with one another and without knowing one anothers whereabouts. From April 19 to May 31, a total of 1,995 children who arrived with 1,940 adults were separated from their parents, according to administration officials.
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uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... at or how to match them with parents ... EVER.
These kids are going to have a hard life for a year or two.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)iceberg, so to speak. And the record keeping, such as it is, for them to find each other again, even if allowed....
Trek4Truth
(515 posts)trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Desert grandma
(804 posts)Michael Avenatti should take this poor mother on as a client.This is stealing children. This little boy will be so traumatized. My husband and I adopted 4 older children who suffered childhood trauma. This trauma affects these kids for life. All will need counseling after experiencing this diabolical and immoral policy.
Trek4Truth
(515 posts)keep the child?????