Dang! They almost got away!..................
Yes, the parents should have gotten a new passport. But the passport was valid when he entered Spain. Wouldn't the better part of valor in this case have been to let the boy go with his parents. As long as they are convinced it was the boy in the passport, why is it helpful to keep him in Spain. they don't want to make him a ward of the state. Just send him on his way.
Dang! They almost got away!..................
Out of control big brother
Sanity is dead
Because Papers Please!!
Passports used to be a courtesy to simplify international travel. Now they’re not only mandatory*, but, 1 second after their expiry moment, they are not longer recognized as valid identification or anything.
*Except for illegal immigrants
KEVIN!!!
If I were to abandon my kid, I would have went to the cab stand and paid his way to the relative.
OTOH any of my kids would have gamed this like a champ. It would have cost me at least a $100 at the airport and a new gaming system at home but they would have handled it.
No mention of names, destination, country of origin. Any idea why?
So, the parents were not native Spaniards. They were going to their home country on a visit and left the kid behind at the airport in order to make their flight. No names given. I’m gonna say Muslim.
The waif in Spain calls mainly to the plane.
Why do you suppose the journalist here refuses to identify the home country of the parents?
FWIW, with child trafficking concerns, for once I side with the state.
So, they went on vacation to their home country???
I bet you they have claimed asylum in their new country, possibly saying they are in fear of being killed if they go back to their home country yet they continually go back for vacations and whatnot.
At least they didn’t take him into the bathroom and drown him, as that woman did to her dog at Orlando airport last spring.
Of all the places you could be ditched, Barcelona is not too bad.
It doesn’t say what country they were from, just that they were in Spain. Why couldn’t they have gone to their country’s embassy, and gotten a temporary extension on the passport? Can they do that sort of thing? And why was the kid allowed to travel on a passport that was about to expire? Shouldn’t the parents have been asked how long they were going to be out of the country before they boarded the plane to go to Spain?
waited for a relative
My Mexican-American wife and kids (Mexico says dual citizens) tried to board the plane back to Chicago. They let my wife, but not our kids, board the plane. Luckily the “relative” was close by and no long wait required.
I flew down to Mexico and brought them back.
Trump refers to Non-Tariff restrictions. This is one of them. Both others and I speculate it has to do with corruption. If my wife had passed the right amount of money the “Mexican law” would not be enforced.
Many Mexican laws exist for the sole purpose of facilitating a bribe.
(Of course Chicago Building and Zoning Codes are not designed to solicit bribes....no! Congressmen do not introduce Fethcer-Bills for the purpose of generating donations to kill the bill after the PR buzz. The US is not like Mexico.)
How the parents handled all the travel arrangements and their own passports and visas, while, the whole time, never noticing their child’s passport had expired? I don’t think THAT was possible. I think they knew, before going to the airport, what was going to happen, and just lied to the kid, springing the situation on him at the last minute at the airport. Lousy parents.
When a relative was called to get the kid, I’m not really buying “abandoned”
To “wrack” means to cause (someone or something) to suffer pain or damage.
It takes about 10 seconds to look up a definition on the internet.