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.
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She should flee to the countryside not another country
We have a friend who is from El Salvadore. He says he feels safer there when he visits with his wife and children every summer, than he did living in a city in the western US.
So much for the media narrative that would be immigrants cannot wait to come here legally, as our friend did.
No, all illegals have a rational, acceptable excuse for breaking our laws and jumping the line, so to speak.
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