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By Madeleine Aggeler JUNE 28, 2018 11:22 AM
Immigration lawyers in Texas, California, and Washington, D.C., told the Tribune that unaccompanied minors have previously been required to appear alone in court, but the family-separation policy has meant that the children are now younger and more numerous than ever before.
Lindsay Toczylowski, the executive director of Immigrant Defenders Law Center in Los Angeles, said she and her team recently represented an unaccompanied 3-year-old in court, and the child in the middle of the hearing started climbing up on the table.
It really highlighted the absurdity of what were doing with these kids, she said.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/toddlers-ordered-to-appear-in-immigration-court-alone.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Just kidding.
The insanity is unbounded.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Trump/Sessions and the GOP anti immigration policies are a crime against humanity!
anarch
(6,535 posts)I myself have nothing but contempt for this administration and every stupid fucking asshole who abetted its illegitimate installation.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)It's a country that runs on anxiety and hostility, hatefulness, shootings. persecution of minorities and on and on. It's a country that can't even get its act together on health care like sane nations, immigration is down the tubes. Now a new SCOTUS will probably argue gay marriage again, on and on. Now, it's run by gangsters. Phew!!!
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)But this is the reality now. I thought lawyers were going to be helping them and fihgting this.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I was told earlier today in response to something I posted on Facebook that this isn't all "black and white" (quotes in original) and that I was expressing myself too emotionally to really understand or to persuade others that kidnapping and torturing children has unguessed-at nuances and shades of gray.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)haele
(12,682 posts)Only reason to have a 3 year old come into any court without a parent or guardian is if s/he was an orphan in an adoption hearing.
There is nothing a 3 year old can be responsible for, in which s/he has to defend herself or himself.
I have a holy terror of a 2 and a half year old grandchild I'm caring for, and no matter how bad or defiant she may act when she wants something, she still has no idea that there is a world beyond what she can see in front of her. She's not capable of understanding more than the basics of cause and effect; heck, even my 6-year old granddaughter sometimes still has problems with that. Neither are competent to stand trial and answer to a judge why or why not they should be sent somewhere.
This is so sick.
Haele
monmouth4
(9,711 posts)courts, of course)..
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)magicarpet
(14,183 posts).... these children have skin that is on the brown side, they come from "shit hole countries". We are greedy Americans and we have no compassion for such low lifes.
What have we become ?
Are we ashamed yet ?