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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Sat Oct 10, 2020, 10:08 AM Oct 2020

U.S. border agency said it 'rescued' a Honduran woman and newborn. Then it separated them


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Molly O'Toole
@mollymotoole
US Border Patrol touted agents 'rescue' of a Honduran woman who just gave birth. Didn't mention that hours later, they separated them, & with newborn still in San Antonio NICU, drove mom hours away to Eagle Pass, where they're detaining her. Read @latimes

EL PASO, TEXAS--JUNE 21, 2019--A group of about 50 men, women and children are led by U.S. border patrol agents and police to a holding area after they crossed into the U.S. to seek asylum on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Texas is sending an additional 1,000 Nation Guard troops to the border to help with the increase in migrant families crossing the border and asking for asylum. Despite the border wall and wire, there...
U.S. border agency said it 'rescued' a Honduran woman and newborn. Then it separated them and...
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U.S. border agency said it 'rescued' a Honduran woman and newborn. Then it separated them (Original Post) soothsayer Oct 2020 OP
Everyone Working For This Agency, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2020 #1
The heartlessness is truly mind blowing. nt chowder66 Oct 2020 #2

The Magistrate

(95,255 posts)
1. Everyone Working For This Agency, Sir
Sat Oct 10, 2020, 10:10 AM
Oct 2020

Needs a mighty spell of re-education in some camp, digging canals on two thin plates of soup a day, under the charge of people to whom it is a matter of complete indifference whether they live out their terms or die untimely.

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