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Father's Day Under Trump: A Grotesque Exercise in the Destruction of Families
https://www.alternet.org/fathers-day-under-trump-grotesque-exercise-destruction-familiesHis name was Marco Antonio Muñoz, he was 39 years old, and he was a father.
An asylum-seeker from Honduras, Muñoz crossed the southern border at Granjeno last month with his wife and three-year-old son. Like millions before him, he had taken his family and fled to the United States seeking a better life with the bedlam of violence still ringing in his ears.
Honduras, his native country, suffers one of the highest murder rates in the world due to deadly gang violence. The US State Department has issued a Travel 3 Advisory warning against visiting that country. Many thousands of Hondurans have been forced to flee the violence, some of them forming the “caravan” Donald Trump has been demagoguing on for months.
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When Muñoz and his family arrived at the border, they were taken by border patrol agents to a processing station, where they were informed they would be separated. Muñoz resisted, fiercely. “They had to use physical force to take the child out of his hands,” one agent told the Washington Post. Muñoz lost his three-year-old boy to the agents and was himself taken to the Starr County Jail.
The last time anyone saw Marco Antonio Muñoz alive, he was praying in the corner of his cell. A short time later, he was found in a pool of his own blood. Authorities ruled it a suicide. No one knows what has become of his three-year-old son. His father is gone forever.
An asylum-seeker from Honduras, Muñoz crossed the southern border at Granjeno last month with his wife and three-year-old son. Like millions before him, he had taken his family and fled to the United States seeking a better life with the bedlam of violence still ringing in his ears.
Honduras, his native country, suffers one of the highest murder rates in the world due to deadly gang violence. The US State Department has issued a Travel 3 Advisory warning against visiting that country. Many thousands of Hondurans have been forced to flee the violence, some of them forming the “caravan” Donald Trump has been demagoguing on for months.
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When Muñoz and his family arrived at the border, they were taken by border patrol agents to a processing station, where they were informed they would be separated. Muñoz resisted, fiercely. “They had to use physical force to take the child out of his hands,” one agent told the Washington Post. Muñoz lost his three-year-old boy to the agents and was himself taken to the Starr County Jail.
The last time anyone saw Marco Antonio Muñoz alive, he was praying in the corner of his cell. A short time later, he was found in a pool of his own blood. Authorities ruled it a suicide. No one knows what has become of his three-year-old son. His father is gone forever.
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