Detained Dads: ICE Re-Separated Our Families as Punishment
Source: The Daily Beast
‘It’s unjust,’ one father said, after being separated from his son for a second time. ‘Please, whatever authority you have, please help us.’
SCOTT BIXBY
08.20.18 5:09 AM ET
Attorneys for more than a dozen immigrant fathers currently being held at a Texas detention center say their clients were re-separated from their children last week as punishment for protesting their treatment at the hands of the government.
In a conference call organized by Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), three of those men and one boy told reporters that the unexplained re-separation was a terrifying indicator that their court-ordered reunification can be ended at any time, and for any reason.
“I could not imagine being separated from my child again, without being able to say goodbye,” one father said tearfully in Spanish, through an interpreter. “It was as if we were criminals.”
The incident began around midday on Wednesday, when armed officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began arresting fathers currently detained at the Karnes Family Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas. The Karnes facility currently houses roughly 630 immigrant men and their sons who were separated under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, before being reunited by order of a federal judge.
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How can any one administration do so much damage in such a short time, and then double down on the damage once they are caught on camera doing it? And still millions of people support them.
Be a stretch, but couldn't Congress dissolve the agency and create an alternative in its place...with wholly new personnel?
