Woman arrested by Border Patrol in front of her children released by judge
Source: Associated Press
MAR 21, 2018 | 7:45 AM
A Mexican woman in the U.S. illegally who was dragged from her daughters by authorities in a widely viewed video was being released on her own recognizance Tuesday by an immigration judge in Southern California.
Judge Zsa Zsa Depaolo said Perla Morales Luna, 36, was not a danger to society or a flight risk and should be released to her family. She told Morales Luna at a hearing at a detention center that her case would be sent to a U.S. immigration judge in downtown San Diego and warned her she could be arrested again if she did not make her court appearances.
Video shows the mother of three being pulled from her anguished daughters — who are U.S. citizens — earlier this month by Border Patrol agents. Viewers hear uncontrollable crying as she is being driven away.
The government said Morales Luna was involved in human trafficking, which she has denied. She has been charged only with being in the country illegally.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-woman-ice-20180321-story.html
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That's their way of "justifying" the rough stuff -- they believed they were dealing with a "hardened criminal" who is therefore undeserving of public sympathy.
If they truly had grounds on which to suspect her of being involved in human trafficking, they NEVER would have released her -- and CERTAINLY not on her OWN recognizance.
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