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Migrants Hesitate At Border, Fearing For Their Children
BuzzFeed ^ | 19 Jun 18 | Karla Zabludovsky

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; children; commiepropaganda; gohomethen; illegals; invaders; repealthe19th; trump
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They are hesitating to cross the border of a sovereign country that they have no right to be in.

That is a good thing.

The Fake News Media will spin it as a bad thing.

#FNM

#Trump2020


61 posted on 06/20/2018 9:21:48 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: SkyPilot

They should run a loop of the HGTV Show “Mexico Life” at all these Detention Centers to show these Central American People how great it is to live in Mexico.


62 posted on 06/20/2018 9:26:39 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: SkyPilot

Word is that many of these children are not even related to the adults they are traveling with.


63 posted on 06/20/2018 9:54:51 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: SkyPilot

If bringing children across gets you out of detention and released into the interior of the United States, people will be incentivized to travel with children.

If arriving with children will not get you released, then there is no incentive to cross the border with children.

This policy eliminates the perverse incentive, and therefore protects children.


64 posted on 06/20/2018 11:22:16 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: SkyPilot

Migrants Hesitate at Border, Fear for their Children


No worries any more, illegales! Your amigo Ryan has got your back! Bring more kids! We’ve got the Four Seasons open for the whole family now! Try the salmon goat cheese crepes.


65 posted on 06/20/2018 11:25:40 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Amish with an attitude

If a kid got you into the bank vault, would you ever do a heist without one?


66 posted on 06/20/2018 11:26:28 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: MAGAthon

Yep. We are seeing unfold the worst travesty in our Fed gov, and...

SQUIRREL! LOOK — POOR GHILLUNS RIPPED FROM THEIR MOMMIES’ ARMS BY MEAN TRUMP! LOOK! LOOK!


67 posted on 06/20/2018 11:37:09 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterto)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I agree that it’s more than 30 million but didn’t want to risk overstating the number.

The important thing is to send them home, for the sake of restoring the rule of law. A secondary but also important consideration is that the fecal-hole countries they come from will never get better if we keep taking their youth; “cultural appropriation” doesn’t get any more real than stealing future generations from other countries.


68 posted on 06/20/2018 3:33:32 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: servo1969

The only way to reunite then with their families is to send them home


69 posted on 06/20/2018 4:56:07 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: ExTxMarine

This is true, although to be frank nobody should be granted an asylum unless their goverment is trying to persicution them. That’s not true of anyone from any central America country.
In the Western heisphere Only Cuba and venswelia would qualify.

I suspect almost all of the 20% they are accepting are being accepted by lawless liberals.


70 posted on 06/20/2018 5:11:27 PM PDT by Monorprise
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