Posted on 06/20/2018 2:55:55 AM PDT by SkyPilot
“If they take my son from me, I would die,” one woman, who was seeking asylum when she was turned away from the border, told BuzzFeed News.
REYNOSA, Mexico — Families waiting inside Mexico to cross into the US are increasingly nervous as reports of the child separations enforced under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance policy" sow fear and anger on the other side of the border.
Most of the families affected by Trump’s policy are, like them, from Central America, where gangs frequently extort small businesses, forcibly recruit pre-teen kids, and burn houses down as a form of punishment for those who don’t comply with their orders. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this month issued a ruling making it harder for people fleeing domestic violence and gang violence to claim asylum.
Already traumatized from the violence at home and the dangers along the way up through Mexico, children are suffering from separation anxiety as they’re held in US government-run warehouses and tents near the border.
At a migrant shelter in Reynosa, one of the country’s most dangerous cities, BuzzFeed News spoke with four families who are weighing whether to make another attempt at the border or come up with a Plan B — unfathomable for those who fled their countries afraid for their lives.
As Claudia walked past Mexican immigration agents at the bridge connecting Reynosa and Hidalgo, Texas, ready to show their US counterparts proof of her brother’s murder and the risk it presented to the rest of the family, they advised her to turn around because “your kids will be taken from you.”
Patricia tried to cross the bridge with her 7-year-old son to ask for asylum two weeks ago but US authorities turned them around. They never gave her a reason.
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Remember Central America is not a SHIT HOLE.......
Yep, per DHS 10,000 out of 12,000 were unaccompanied; see link in article:
https://empowertexans.com/features/border-policy-and-the-sinister-element/
The President should declare a state of emergency and send the Marines to Occupy Hondouras aand close off the Northern border.
The flow of human detritus can be stopped at the source.
There is lots of precedent for Marines in Central Mexico. In competent anc crrupt Central American leadership is the root of the problem. There is a war. Marines end wars by winning
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
A large number of these kids are being trafficked as sex slaves and slave labor. Read about the Egg Farm in Ohio:
Guatemalan human trafficker sentenced for forcing laborers to live in squalor, work on egg farms
https://www.cleveland.com/courtjustice/index.ssf/2016/06/guatemalan_human_trafficker_se.html
I couldn’t get the link to post, so copy-paste
They need to fix their countries, not bring their corrupt culture here.
Ha ha, very funny.
The only people she has to fear are other latin types who would rape and murder her, not Americans.
What a stupid, emotions-based article.
Shut off ALL taxpayer-paid benefits and programs for non-citizens. Prison for those who hire illegals. The invasion will slow to a trickle,and many of those already here will leave on their own.
No FRiend, try again.
That 12 million number was bandied about when I was in high school, 30 years ago.
The current estimate is 30 to 40 million.
That is, over 10% of the population of my country is illegal criminal invaders.
It is widely accepted that 10% of the working age population of Mexico has moved to America. Permanently.
Horse hockey. No, they do not hesitate one bit. They’ll be flooding in here fast to beat the coming storm when conservatives finally get fed up and get the wall built.
On Laura Ingraham last night, she had a BP guy or some such stating parents give their daughters birth control because they know they’re going to be raped. That’s some parental love.
Many years ago, I posted an article of an illegal who said she’d crossed over at McAllen, TX over 400 times. Catch and release. Get paperwork and give it to the next one who wants to come over. That’s nothing new. Back when I was a kid in school, it was a well known practice to use their cousins’ or friends’ birth certificates to cross the border. Funny how they can cross back south at Christmas to see grandma and be back in the US in a few days none the worse for wear.
Why aren’t the Fake Asylum Seekers staying in Mexico,the first safe country, as they are required by international law to do?
There should be NO hearings for anyone not using a designated U.S. Port of Entry. Turn the entire family back from the border, and tell them to stay in Mexico. We are not obligated to do anything for them. That would be a deterrent.
This story is bunk, they said they didn’t know why they were turned away. They were told and didn’t like the answer and they want to cross illegally but are afraid.
need to start making those ctrl/south American countries & mexico pay for costs incurred.
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
If they’re from Central American counties, as soon as they crossed into Mexico, they should have sought asylum from Mexico.
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