Anthony was sent to a shelter for migrant children
They’d had a plan: Elsa Johana Ortiz Enriquez packed up what little she had in Guatemala and traveled across Mexico with her 8-year-old son, Anthony. In a group, they rafted across the Rio Grande into Texas. From there they intended to join her boyfriend, Edgar, who had found a construction job in the United States.
Except it all went wrong. The Border Patrol was waiting as they made their way from the border on May 26, and soon mother and son were in a teeming detention center in southern Texas. The next part unfolded so swiftly that, even now, Ms. Ortiz cannot grasp it: Anthony was sent to a shelter for migrant children. And she was put on a plane back to Guatemala.
“I am completely devastated,” Ms. Ortiz, 25, said in one of a series of video interviews last week from her family home in Guatemala. Her eyes swollen from weeping and her voice subdued, she said she had no idea when or how she would see her son again.
The Feds are so eager to put Trump’s plan into action that they’re generating chaos in which children get lost altogether.
Critics say that Ms. Ortiz’s saga is the latest indication that the administration’s new enforcement strategy was rolled out without adequate planning. The processing and detention of migrant families can involve three Homeland Security agencies — Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services — as well as the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. Poor coordination among them has made it hard to track children and parents once their paths diverge in the labyrinthine system.
Whoops! Sorry! You know how these things go – like when you can’t find your glasses so you sign away all your rights. Sorry but we can’t fix it now; bye bye!
All countries have border controls of one kind or another. But why children have to be separated from parents under any circumstances is beyond me. If the parents are taken into custody as illegals, surely the children should be allowed to stay with them.
But one thing for sure. Whether intended or not, this will act as a deterrent to future illegals. The possibility remains that that was the actual intention. It has certainly generated enough publicity to deter future illegal immigrants with children in tow.
Its chilling that our Border and Immigration services are ALREADY staffed with thugs who will carry out policies this crazy and vicious.
https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Solution/dp/0062303023/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RTPAP1H7CWCBR4G5X52M
That book came up in a Facebook conversation on Sunday about the slide into evil. My suggestion for Trump-people reading was The Nazi Doctors at the same moment someone else suggested Ordinary Men. I felt the former was particularly relevant to Trump-people because it’s about Professionals in expensive suits, while the reserve battalion in Ordinary Men is made up of less prosperous people.