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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFour heartless guards. One scared 8-year-old immigrant child.
The guardians didnt step more than two feet away from the kid. One of the four was an armed police officer. I thought, Does it take an army of adult men to take care of one elementary schooler? I walked over to the boy, crouched down, and asked him, in Spanish, How do you feel? Sad, he said.
The boy had been in custody for over a month. One of his guardians told me that he had been acting out and threatening to harm himself, by jumping from his bed. This man told me, Im his clinician, but he was definitely not a doctor. I dont know if hes a social worker, a medical assistant, a housekeeper. I have no clue. But he obviously had been granted some sort of authority in regard to assessing children and determining what their needs are. He wouldnt provide basic background. I couldnt find out any information because he would say, Im not at liberty to tell you that and You dont need to know that, even though a lot of my questions were relevant to taking care of the child. I was asking things like Where are his parents?
One of the men told me that the boy had crossed the border alone, but I didnt know if I was getting the true storyif he had been separated from his mother and father before or after he entered the country. The man who called himself a clinician also told me that they knew where his parents were, and one of them was in the United States. I didnt know if that meant in custody or not.,,
I asked the clinician, When is this child going to be reunited with his parents? He was evasive. First it was Oh, well, we dont know. And then it was Well, he wont be reunited with his parents unless he behaves. The lack of compassion was scary, and it didnt seem like there was really a plan.
The boy had been in custody for over a month. One of his guardians told me that he had been acting out and threatening to harm himself, by jumping from his bed. This man told me, Im his clinician, but he was definitely not a doctor. I dont know if hes a social worker, a medical assistant, a housekeeper. I have no clue. But he obviously had been granted some sort of authority in regard to assessing children and determining what their needs are. He wouldnt provide basic background. I couldnt find out any information because he would say, Im not at liberty to tell you that and You dont need to know that, even though a lot of my questions were relevant to taking care of the child. I was asking things like Where are his parents?
One of the men told me that the boy had crossed the border alone, but I didnt know if I was getting the true storyif he had been separated from his mother and father before or after he entered the country. The man who called himself a clinician also told me that they knew where his parents were, and one of them was in the United States. I didnt know if that meant in custody or not.,,
I asked the clinician, When is this child going to be reunited with his parents? He was evasive. First it was Oh, well, we dont know. And then it was Well, he wont be reunited with his parents unless he behaves. The lack of compassion was scary, and it didnt seem like there was really a plan.
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Four heartless guards. One scared 8-year-old immigrant child. (Original Post)
mainer
Jun 2018
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Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)1. I fucking hate these folks...they need to be prosecuted.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)2. the stories of horror
keep coming.
We will be judged harshly if this keeps up. You don't treat humans like this.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)3. What the hell?!?!
"He won't be reunited with his parents unless he behaves"??? Who are these monsters? Then referred to a hug as a "reward".
raven mad
(4,940 posts)4. Eichmann didn't quite have it right.
Nor did Goebbles....................
What's next, sTrumpet? gas chambers?