Two Kids Were Left Alone for Eight Days Following Mississippi ICE Raid

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If both parents were detained, one should have been released according to immigration officials, but that did not happen in at least one case

By PETER WADE

When immigration officials raided a series of food-processing plants in Mississippi on August 7 and arrested close to 700 suspected undocumented immigrants, it was clear that children were left behind without their parents. But, “If both parents were arrested, one parent was sent home within 24 hours,” a spokesman from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told ABC News.

Clearly, that did not happen in at least one case. Two children, ages 12 and 14, were left alone for eight days after both their parents were swept up in the raids. After authorities became aware of the situation, the children’s mother was released on August 15. Pedro, the children’s uncle, told ABC News that when his sister was taken into custody that she told the agents she had children. But both parents were detained anyway, leaving their children home alone. After days passed, she then told an ICE officer, who asked for the names and dates of birth of the children, which finally led to her release, Pedro said.

The day of the raids presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said, “These children will go to sleep tonight with no idea when, or if, they’ll see their parents again. This is being done in our name — and it’s on all of us to end it.”

With people scared after being arrested, and possibly afraid that their children might be deported without them, or worse, this story is likely not unique. It’s a heartless policy that should not be in place.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/two-kids-alone-for-eight-days-mississippi-ice-raid-876190/

[Grins]

1. Years ago...

Years ago I read some report on abused children and there was this question: "Why do some abused children cling to their abusive parents?"

And the considered answer was: Fear of abandonment. More than anything, children, even those not abused - Fear. Abandonment.

Imagine these children.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. This is happening in America. I am so ashamed to be an American.

Unabashedly.

[Wounded Bear]

3. The cruelty is the point...

[Phoenix61]

4. Yep, not a flaw, a feature. nt

[calimary]

9. And a motivation.

This is fucking CRIMINAL.

And immoral.

And a flat-out SIN.

Gives a whole new meaning to the old turn-of-phrase "suffer the little children..."



And to think that there are hoards of people who still support this schmuck. And actually LIKE what he's doing.

I don't know what's worse - his doing this, or the deplorables who cheer him on - specifically for doing this.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Does no one ever stop to think that our food industry runs on immigrant labor!

How do Trump supporters think their vegetables or fruit or chickens appear on their grocery store shelves? If we deported every person in the country illegally, the economic hit would most likely finish sending us into recession. Vegetables would rot in the fields, fruit would go unharvested, meat would not be processed, many diary products would not be available. Ignorance is not bliss!

[cstanleytech]

10. They wrongly assume Americans other than themselves of course will take the jobs even though they

are often jobs that are low pay and yet very labor intensive or in other words they are fucking morons.

[Igel]

12. When there were similarly low-paying jobs

the solution was unionization.

That led to artificial labor shortages called "strikes," which led to higher wages and often to better working conditions.

If there's an artificial labor shortage called "restricted immigration," one of two things happens. Either there's internal immigration to help provide the labor needed, or there's higher wages and often better working conditions (which may lead to internal immigration).

Large numbers of undocumented workers enables the low pay and poor conditions we see.

Of course, somebody would have to pay the increased wages, and ultimately that's the consumer. That may result in higher prices in stores, which was one result of unionization. It may lead to increased imports of meat (and other foods) from countries with lower wages and the off-shoring of the labor-intensive jobs. That's another result of unionization.

Many want high wages, jobs remaining here, and low prices in the stores.

[yaesu]

6. they need to make a movie about this, cause the only way to get peoples attention now days

is to put it on netflix regretfully.

[milestogo]

7. Imagine being 12 or 14 and having your parents disappear while at work

and you have no idea when or if they are coming back. You don't know what to do or who to trust. Upsetting and frightening for these children at the very least.

[usaf-vet]

8. If you want to know what make enemies. Enemies that grow-up hating those who oppressed them.

We have seen it in the countries we have invaded. We have seen it in the survivors of our aggression. We have seen it from those who were the victims of collateral damage.

Now thanks to the Trump administration and its evil policies of separating families and caging children we are making a generation of people who live on our southern border and have cause to hate us.

[Amimnoch]

11. If this one incident gets news coverage,

How many more like this (or worse) never even get heard?

Shameful.