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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICE came for their fathers and husbands. Now these Mississippi families will live in poverty
ICE came for their fathers and husbands. Now these Mississippi families will live in poverty
June 26, 2017
Will Tucker
BATESVILLE, Miss. Rita still felt sore from giving birth a few days earlier. But in the early morning on March 28, she rose to make breakfast for her husband and children. She did not know they were all being watched.
Adjusting to the arrival of a new baby girl made for a hectic morning. Ritas 9-year-old son missed the bus; her husband Jorge planned to drive him to school. At about 7:25 a.m., she rushed the two out the door of the familys double-wide trailer, then went to the bathroom. When she returned to the kitchen, she found her son standing there, alone.
Some police are looking around in the trucks outside, the boy said. From the window, she saw her husband standing near his work trucks, surrounded by men wearing vests emblazoned with Police across the backs. Rita sent her son, a U.S. citizen, back outside to ask what was happening.
Moments later, he returned with an answer: Theyre not just checking the trucks. Theyre checking Papa.
Rita watched as the men handcuffed her husband and took him away. She didnt know exactly who they were. She could see no uniforms other than the Police vests, and there wasnt a squad car in sight. But, after several panicked hours, it became clear that they were U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Her husband had been taken to the LaSalle Detention Facility in Jena, La., nearly 300 miles away.
His last border-crossing was 12 years ago. Until he was detained in March, he worked as a roofer, and a good one, in a county where a tradesman with a specialty can make $850 in a week.
Now, for Rita and her family, the income is gone. Three children the 3-month-old girl and two others, all U.S. citizens stand to lose their father, maybe once and for all, if hes sent to Mexico in the coming days.
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ICE came for their fathers and husbands. Now these Mississippi families will live in poverty (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2017
OP
This is so tragic I'm in tears. I bet all of those who wanted a trump win in order
lunamagica
Jul 2017
#3
Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)1. K&R
madokie
(51,076 posts)2. This is Insane
We can do better than this and we must do better than this
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)3. This is so tragic I'm in tears. I bet all of those who wanted a trump win in order
to spark "the revolution" think that these tragedies -families and lives destroyed- are just "casualties of war" and the sacrifice is worth it -as long as they don't have to sacrifice anything
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)4. Is America great again yet?
I'm not holding my breath.