Perhaps the best way is that if they are minors, to have the state detain them by its Child Protective Service as “suspected runaways”. Then, it could officially contact the government of Mexico to notify it that it should seek out the parents of these Mexican children so that they can be returned to them via the Mexican juvenile justice system.
By US law, children are legally chattels of their parents, and the state cannot release minors until there are responsible adults to care for them.
Would there be a way to prosecute the feds who didn’t follow the proper protocols for handling runaways? Surely the feds aren’t authorized to transport runaway minors to a different state and dump them there. Wouldn’t that be like abandonment by the feds without following proper protocols?
“By US law”. Why should the state of Arizona “ abide by US law” when the Feds are doing this???????
“Perhaps the best way is that if they are minors, to have the state detain them by its Child Protective Service as “suspected runaways”. Then, it could officially contact the government of Mexico to notify it that it should seek out the parents of these Mexican children so that they can be returned to them via the Mexican juvenile justice system.”
Something odd going on here? Many of these children are not mexican, but are from South America. I keep reading how tight mexico’s Southern border is. So these children are crossing that “closed” border, and traveling all the way North through mexico to our border? How? Something is going on! Is the mexican government collaborating in the transport of these children? At who’s behest? Ours?
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MESSAGE TO SEN INHOFE---Sen Inhofe should notify Army officials that these are minor children......Child Protective Services should detain them under laws covering “suspected runaways”.
Sen Inhofe, the US military, and the state, should officially contact the governments involved specifying that they are required to seek out the parents of these Mexican, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemalan children so that they can be returned to them via their respective juvenile justice systems.
Sen Inhofe might emphasize that the countries involved might not want to be party to child abandonement, as the world looks on.
AS yefragetuwrabrumuy INSIGHTFULLY POSTED---By US law, these separated children are legally chattels of their parents; the state cannot release minors until there are responsible adults to care for them.
Yet, the Federal, some State and a few municipal governments can and do provide various methods by which minor children may legally be given information and medical interventions against their parents’ wishes and often without their knowledge.
I do expect that there are Federal judges who would use the specious *humanitarian* claim to obviate parental prerogatives.