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12-year-old daughter of undocumented immigrants gives emotional speech...
The Hill ^ | 06/30/18 | Avery Anapol

Posted on 06/30/2018 12:00:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The 12-year-old daughter of two undocumented immigrant parents delivered an emotional speech at the Families Belong Together rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

The girl, identified only as “Leah” in a CNN video, fought back tears while speaking out against the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which has resulted in more than 2,000 migrant children being detained and separated from their parents.

“Why do they hurt us like this?” She said. “It is unfair that they get to spend time with their families today while there are children in detention centers and in cages all alone missing their parents, who are thrown in jail.”

The thousands of attendees cheered Leah on and chanted “Shame” in response to mentions of Trump policies and family separations.

Leah shared her personal fears that her mother will be arrested and deported, saying that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to “take away my mom from me.”

“I don’t like to live with this fear, it’s scary,” Leah said. “I can’t sleep, I can’t study, I am stressed.”

“I don’t understand why this administration won’t support mothers who just want a better life for their children,” she continued. “This needs to change.”

Leah said that she wanted to be “an example” to other kids with undocumented parents, and to tell them “not to give up.”

“We are all human and deserve to be loved and cared for,” she said. “We are children. Our government has to do the right thing and stop separating us from our parents.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; commiepropaganda; daca; illegalaliens; sobstory; trumpillegals
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To: yesthatjallen

At 12 years of age, you should know crossing into the USA illegally is a crime.

Parents and their children that should know better that do crime should expect to do time, separately.


41 posted on 06/30/2018 12:44:36 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t care. Get out of my country.


42 posted on 06/30/2018 12:46:19 PM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: yesthatjallen

To which jail she wants to reunite with her parrents?
Her father’s jail? Her mother’s jail?

With the dangerous criminals in both jails, she would probably end up in solitary for her own protection.

What kind of insane, heartless sorry excuse for a human wrote her speech? Don’t they care about the kids?


43 posted on 06/30/2018 12:54:59 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: yesthatjallen

We should change or implement a national policy based on a coerced speech by ONE twelve year old?

Hey, Democrats..... it isn’t working anymore.

Worse for you, it shows just how low you are willing to go.

The “TRUTH” is a concept that you are unaware of.

Jesus said: ““I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 14:6 (NIV)

Since Democrats are liars and truth is an unknown concept to them, here is another verse. Imagine Jesus is speaking to Democrats.

John 8 (NIV)
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”


44 posted on 06/30/2018 12:58:37 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Innovative

Without the law you have chaos. This little girl knows nothing of the law let alone the ramifications of failure to uphold the law. This is where the future war will start order vs chaos. Little girl you need to grow up .


45 posted on 06/30/2018 12:59:10 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: yesthatjallen
“Why do they hurt us like this?”

Blame your parents, honey. They are criminal invaders in my country. They broke the law. They are the reason you suffer. Not Donald Trump.

46 posted on 06/30/2018 1:02:23 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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Stop right there:

There are immigrants having become so through the system as set up.

There are those in line and in the process of immigrating through the system.

Any other foreign national within the borders, regardless of age, is a foreign invader. Very, very few are asylum refugees in accordance with the legal, written and well established definition.

Every word by any foreign invader, regardless of age, is invalid.


47 posted on 06/30/2018 1:07:07 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: yesthatjallen

That is exactly what they are doing.
If you want a better life, change things in your country.. OR come here legally.

I can’t imagine illegally entering a country and then demanding they pay for everything.


48 posted on 06/30/2018 1:09:44 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Gen.Blather
I met Mexicans who worked in California and went home at night or on weekends. How is that possible?

They cross through Ports of Entry, and claim they are visiting, shopping, ETC. Many cross daily and work in U.S.

49 posted on 06/30/2018 1:10:11 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: yesthatjallen

Take it up with your parents, who are not here legally and who created, and perpetuate, by not getting legal, the stress and poverty you now feel, little girl.


50 posted on 06/30/2018 1:12:21 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: yesthatjallen

Leah said that she wanted to be “an example” to other kids with
undocumented parents, and to tell them “not to give up.”

**************

Is Leah a USA citizen or is she an undocumented also?


51 posted on 06/30/2018 1:12:33 PM PDT by deport
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To: Tammy8

“They cross through Ports of Entry, and claim they are visiting, shopping, ETC. Many cross daily and work in U.S. “

The most popular cable channel in Mexico is just cameras facing the border checkpoints. A running banner saying something like, “Expect 20 minute delay at gate four as vehicles are being hand searched. Gate two has no delay. Dogs are deployed at gate three. All other gates five minutes or less.”


52 posted on 06/30/2018 1:14:35 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: yesthatjallen

Thank goodness our Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Emotions for the Constitution and made sure we’re a nation of un-thinking sympathies instead of cold cruel rule of law.


53 posted on 06/30/2018 1:14:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: yesthatjallen

If I illegally snuck into Costa Rica with my kids I’d be nervous and stressed too

Theres a solution
Go home and re examine your life


54 posted on 06/30/2018 1:15:13 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Liz; AuntB; greyfoxx39; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; ...

BOOHOOHOOHOO

SOB SOB

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55 posted on 06/30/2018 1:19:31 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: prophetic

“IS THE USA THE ONLY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THEY CAN GO TO”

YES, because all the other countries secure their borders and do not ignore enforcement of their own immigration laws!

“OR IS IT BECAUSE WE HAVE INTERNAL ENEMIES THAT STANDS TO PROFIT FROM THEM (IN MANY WAYS) AT THE PEOPLE’S & COUNTRY’S EXPENSE?”

Our active and very open Communist fifth column LOVES this situation and would love to see a borderless America!


56 posted on 06/30/2018 1:28:10 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: yesthatjallen

I am moved. Bodily function wise.

5.56mm


57 posted on 06/30/2018 1:29:13 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: yesthatjallen

Nobody to blame but her parents.


58 posted on 06/30/2018 2:01:44 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: yesthatjallen

what utter garbage. Don’t come here illegally. End of discussion.


59 posted on 06/30/2018 2:10:38 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: fhayek

Every adult who is arrested in this country is separated from their kids. Sometimes this works to the advantage of the kids.


60 posted on 06/30/2018 2:11:42 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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