Detained Dads: ICE Re-Separated Our Families as Punishment
Source: The Daily Beast
Its unjust, one father said, after being separated from his son for a second time. Please, whatever authority you have, please help us.
SCOTT BIXBY
08.20.18 5:09 AM ET
Attorneys for more than a dozen immigrant fathers currently being held at a Texas detention center say their clients were re-separated from their children last week as punishment for protesting their treatment at the hands of the government.
In a conference call organized by Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), three of those men and one boy told reporters that the unexplained re-separation was a terrifying indicator that their court-ordered reunification can be ended at any time, and for any reason.
I could not imagine being separated from my child again, without being able to say goodbye, one father said tearfully in Spanish, through an interpreter. It was as if we were criminals.
The incident began around midday on Wednesday, when armed officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began arresting fathers currently detained at the Karnes Family Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas. The Karnes facility currently houses roughly 630 immigrant men and their sons who were separated under the Trump administrations zero-tolerance immigration policy, before being reunited by order of a federal judge.
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sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Chemisse
(30,813 posts)It's disgusting.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)How can any one administration do so much damage in such a short time, and then double down on the damage once they are caught on camera doing it? And still millions of people support them.
lark
(23,102 posts)Come on judge, give the child kidnappers and torturers what they truly deserve under the law. Lock them up!!!
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)Be a stretch, but couldn't Congress dissolve the agency and create an alternative in its place...with wholly new personnel?
Hestia
(3,818 posts)accountability. Break the dept back down into the original components so that we can see and know just WITF is this cruel and soulless in any bureaucracy, Democratic or 'pug and taking it upon themselves, with no management, to do just what the hell they want. BTW, WHO is the person really in charge of ICE?
Right now there is only one woman who is supposed to be responsible for all these departments.
We lived 233 +/- years with individual components/security, we can most certainly do it again.
Bayard
(22,075 posts)Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Sick, sick country.