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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 04:45 PM Jun 2018

'I Can't Go Without My Son,' a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala

They’d had a plan: Elsa Johana Ortiz Enriquez packed up what little she had in Guatemala and traveled across Mexico with her 8-year-old son, Anthony. In a group, they rafted across the Rio Grande into Texas. From there they intended to join her boyfriend, Edgar, who’d found a construction job in the United States.

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

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'I Can't Go Without My Son,' a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala (Original Post) cynatnite Jun 2018 OP
Pretty sure the Trump administration is making big dollars from DURHAM D Jun 2018 #1
I wonder if their plan is to enslave these children malaise Jun 2018 #2
No question. nt DURHAM D Jun 2018 #3
Where is the Pizzagate crowd? roamer65 Jun 2018 #6
Great point. nt Lucky Luciano Jun 2018 #10
I think something more sinister is afoot jmowreader Jun 2018 #21
Well they learned from malaise Jun 2018 #22
Heartless, Souless, GasLighitng MONSTERS. Cha Jun 2018 #4
They basically JustAnotherGen Jun 2018 #5
This is what hell looks like, I'm convinced. Initech Jun 2018 #7
welcome heaven05 Jun 2018 #8
This is so evil. I am sickened by what is happening here. (eom) StevieM Jun 2018 #9
Agree... yuiyoshida Jun 2018 #11
Can someone explain how they are deporting people but keeping their children? nt Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #12
This is how--they don't keep track of where they stick the kids: tblue37 Jun 2018 #14
+1, when I hear it was over 10,000 kids I figured the fuck up crew doesn't know where the kids are uponit7771 Jun 2018 #16
Where is the 10,000 figure coming from? I've not heard that? Amaryllis Jun 2018 #18
Heard it on MSNBC ... here's a factcheck link inside uponit7771 Jun 2018 #19
Thanks. I wondered how many there were. Fearing we were just hearing about the tip of the Amaryllis Jun 2018 #20
I hope they are able to sue the US Gov't. nt Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #17
THAT RIGHT THERE IS CHILD ABUSE. trueblue2007 Jun 2018 #23
Pure evil. Demons. Damn them forever. Guilded Lilly Jun 2018 #13
This is one of those cases Desert grandma Jun 2018 #15
I don't understand...wouldn't they WANT to get rid of the kid too and deport them both? How can you Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #24

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)
1. Pretty sure the Trump administration is making big dollars from
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 04:57 PM
Jun 2018

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.


jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
21. I think something more sinister is afoot
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:52 PM
Jun 2018

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.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
8. welcome
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 06:59 PM
Jun 2018

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.

tblue37

(65,360 posts)
14. This is how--they don't keep track of where they stick the kids:
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 08:25 PM
Jun 2018
snip

Critics say that Ms. Ortiz’s saga is the latest indication that the administration’s 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 Women’s 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

(90,339 posts)
16. +1, when I hear it was over 10,000 kids I figured the fuck up crew doesn't know where the kids are
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 08:35 PM
Jun 2018

... 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)
20. Thanks. I wondered how many there were. Fearing we were just hearing about the tip of the
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:48 PM
Jun 2018

iceberg, so to speak. And the record keeping, such as it is, for them to find each other again, even if allowed....

Desert grandma

(804 posts)
15. This is one of those cases
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 08:33 PM
Jun 2018

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)
24. I don't understand...wouldn't they WANT to get rid of the kid too and deport them both? How can you
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 06:02 PM
Jun 2018

keep the child?????

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