Immigrant girl hides in auto shop after escaping attendants from Florida detention facility

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Washington Post

The 15-year-old Honduran girl couldn’t take it anymore. She had been held in the Florida detention facility for three weeks, and it felt like a prison.

So when she saw an opportunity to escape during a trip to the doctor’s office, she ran.

That’s when Frank Gonzalez saw her.

“She came running in from the streets,” said the owner of Gonzalez Auto Center in Homestead, Fla. “She was crying.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/immigrant-girl-hides-in-auto-shop-after-escaping-attendants-from-florida-detention-facility/ar-BBLaYNg?li=BBnbcA1

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This is becoming the new normal. In due time, we will get here...

[bitterross]

1. MSN is late to the party. This is old news.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10935297

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure.

[DRoseDARs]

3. It's important to note Frank Lopez is a proud Trump supporter.

Of course he made sure the girl was sent back to the camp.

[turbinetree]

4. This what the owner of the car shop said.................

"Gonzalez, who came to the United States from Cuba in 1971 with his family, said he supports the Trump administration’s tough stance on border security but disagrees with separating families."

Just unfucking believable, that he thinks that since he was given a special status......................because he came from Cuba has a "refugee", that this 15 year old is classified as some "immigrant" right, Gonzalez.

Its just semantics correct, no its not, Gonzalez, she is a REFUGEE...............Gonzalez.................got it.........................................

[SunSeeker]

5. Exactly. How can he sleep at night knowing he sent her back to that torture chamber?

"Gonzalez said he’s glad he told the officers where to find the girl."

[turbinetree]

6. Then he said this "stuff"................

“People who want to come here, and work for the American Dream, they should get papers and follow the rules,” Gonzalez said. “But it breaks my heart to see mothers and fathers divided from their children. Families should be together all the time.”


I just wonder if this "guy" came here by way of the "Cuban Adjustment Act" of 1966...................

https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/AFM/HTML/AFM/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-8624/0-0-0-10170.html


And then when this young woman and her family more than likely was trying to come here through the system, legally...................this Dumpster supporter...........thinks other wise.................what a double standard.............

[SunSeeker]

7. Our current immigration system has made it impossible for poor people to come here legally.

Unless you are a Cuban of course.

[oberliner]

8. Torture chamber?

[SunSeeker]

11. How else would you describe a room where children are kept in cages? nt

[NBachers]

9. Still, he supports Trump's general immigration policy, adding, "Let's make America great again."

[malthaussen]

10. Just curious what people think he should have done.

Take her home? "Nothing improper here, Officer, honest!" A runaway shelter? But at some point the runaway needs to be put in touch with a legal guardian or someone who can legally serve in loco parentis. She can't be "adopted" off the street like a stray cat.

-- Mal

[haele]

12. His sister had already contacted an immigration advocacy.

From the description of the article, a lawyer was already on his/her way over when the owner flagged down a policeman to have the hysterical girl taken off his property in handcuffs.
My former boss works pro-bono for Casa Cornelia, an local immigration advocacy/legal services group here that has been set up to handle refugee/asylum cases - especially those for people fleeing abusive relationships, trafficking/threats of slavery, or mortal retaliation from the political/local power structure they are fleeing from.

Pretty near all immigration advocacy groups have access homes/shelters set up that are within the legal system that can and currently do act in loco parentis for unaccompanied minors that are in the legal limbo of the immigration laws.

At the most "generous", the owner didn't know his sister had already started taking care of this issue.
But just from what he reportedly said, he was probably tired of the fuss and bother of what he saw as a worthless low caste criminal crying in the back of his shop, so he got rid of her - like he would a stray starving dog, if his kids were watching.

After all, the cops arrested her "like she was a person". Which made it all better.

Haele

[malthaussen]

13. That's useful information that should be more widely known.

Although it would not have made much difference in this case. It's good to know there is some means of shielding the minor from the coils of the competing authorities while the legal status is sorted out.

-- Mal