Posted on 06/10/2020 1:43:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
After refusing to give in to the demands of a ruthless gang and some of her fellow police officers in El Salvador, Magdalena fled to the U.S. in 2013 and was ultimately granted legal refuge. Years later, members of the same gang threatened her 13-year-old daughter, who journeyed north in search of the safe harbor her mother found on U.S. soil.
But Magdalena's daughter met a starkly different fate at America's southern border.
In April, someone who was apprehended by border officials alongside her daughter informed Magdalena that her child was receiving medical care after falling into the Rio Grande river. After calling government agencies, hospitals and advocacy groups for days, she managed to secure a brief phone call with her daughter, who was waiting to be placed on a deportation flight back to El Salvador.
"She told me she did not want to go back, that she was scared," Magdalena, who asked for her name to be changed, told CBS News in Spanish.
She hoped the deportation could be stopped if officials knew that her daughter could be harmed by gang members. But her daughter was not allowed to request asylum. Instead, she was expelled to El Salvador hours after the phone call.
Magdalena's 13-year-old daughter is one of hundreds of migrant children the U.S. has expelled since late March.
The teenage girl is also a plaintiff in the first court challenges against the emergency border, which immigration authorities have used to carry out more than 21,000 expulsions of unauthorized migrant adults, families with children and unaccompanied minors in a lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday by the Texas Civil Rights Project and the American Civil Liberties Union, which argues the expulsion policy violates several federal laws, including one designed to shield minors from violence and exploitation.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Gangs is El Salvador’s problem
We are not the “Safe Spaces” for the world’s aggrieved
We have enough problems with our own kind
See the riots, CBS . . .you know, what’s occupied your “news’ cycle the last two weeks
Bye!
“After refusing to give in to the demands of a ruthless gang and some of her fellow police officers in El Salvador, Magdalena fled to the U.S. in 2013 and was ultimately granted legal refuge. Years later, members of the same gang threatened her 13-year-old daughter, who journeyed north in search of the safe harbor her mother found on U.S. soil.”
Sounds like she abandoned her daughter who was around 6 at the time and never tried to get her safely here.
Total bs.
There’s no racism in El Salvador so she’s much better off there than in the racist USA.
L
It sounds like Magdalena should go back to El Salvador to look out for her young daughter.
What kind of mother leaves a 6 year old to flee to another country?
So, Magdalena (ah, the Holy Mary, yeah, we all see why the author had to name her so many times), left her 7 year old daughter back in the home country in the middle of the gangs that she fled from. Smells like fake news to slap down Trump.
“Completely unjust”
Magdalena, who asked for her name to be changed, told CBS News in Spanish.
Magdalena said she is a firm believer in American democracy and its laws.
Oh Really now. In the US for over 13 years and still cannot speak English or respect our laws. She should go as well. To protect her daughter of course.
The young and the old.The white and the black.The male and the female.Canadians,Germans,Australians,Nigerians,Guatemalans,Irish,Italians,Brazilians,Japanese...ALL OF THEM!
” Instead, she was expelled to El Salvador hours after the phone call.”
who said our immigration process is too slow XD
7 Years ago, she abandoned her 6 year old daughter in El Salvador to seek a better life for herself? Now she in crying about her daughter being refused entry. Let’s reunite this El Salvadoran family immediately. Deport BOTH of them!
” In the US for over 13 years and still cannot speak English
****
ironic ain’t it? 13 damn years and this idiot couldn’t learn our culture.
Magdalena said she is a firm believer in American democracy and its laws.
” In the US for over 13 years and still cannot speak English
****
ironic ain’t it? 13 damn years and this idiot couldn’t learn our culture.
And just why did Magdalena leave her child to fend for herself?
She has a habit of leaving her daughters to fend for themselves.
Build the Wall!
Deport them ALL!
I’m sure the Mexican Federales could protect her from El Salvadoran gangs. Why didn’t she stop there?
I was told there is and never was anything great about the US. Why on Earth would she want to come here? She could have just settled in Mexico if she were escaping El Salvadoran gangs. Any place is better than here, or so I heard.
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