[SoJoCo]

But for Maria Patino -- who prays every time she leaves home -- even a chance encounter with police could end with her two elementary-age children being left alone or taken to foster care if she and her husband are sent back to Mexico. Both are in the country illegally and have no friends or relatives close enough to take in the kids.

What kind of mother would want to leave her kids behind?

[calex59]

even a chance encounter with police could end with her two elementary-age children being left alone or taken to foster care if she and her husband are sent back to Mexico.

This is just BS. Why do they have to leave their kids here? They are perfectly free to take them with them. If the kids are anchor babies they will still be US citizens and can come back legally when they are grown. Only a heartless a**hat would leave their kids behind. To hear the MSM tell it, they(the illegals) are forced to leave them(their kids) here and that is just BS.

[Reese Hamm]

What kind of mother would want to leave her kids behind?

That is one thing I had trouble wrapping my mind around with Operation Peter Pan. How much fear would you have to have of your homeland circumstances to consider handing your kids over to total strangers, knowing you would probably never see them again, and in some cases knowing they were so young that they wouldn't even remember you?

Maybe I'm selfish and/or naive but I'm pretty sure that I would have to be dead for someone to take my kid.