THAT is NOT TRUE.This will make those with an empathy gene cringe (and Trumpkins proud I suppose). F-ing disgusting IMHO.
CHICAGO (AP) - When Lidia Karine Souza would call her 9-year-old son -- allowed just 20 minutes per week -- he would beg his mom though tears to do everything in her power to get him out of U.S. government custody and back to her.
The 27-year-old Brazilian mother, who is seeking asylum, has been trying with all her might.
She searched for weeks to find Diogo after the two were separated at the border in late May. When she was released June 9 from a Texas facility, she filled out nearly 40 pages of documents that U.S. officials told her were required to regain custody.
Then they told her that the rules had changed and that she needed any family members living with her in the United States to be fingerprinted and still more documents. This was not the safety she had sought for herself and her son. This was not the American dream.
"This ... is a nightmare," she said, sitting in a suburban Chicago hotel, still waiting to be reunited with Diogo, from whom she'd never spent more than a week apart before this.
On Tuesday, Souza's attorneys filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to demand her son be immediately released. He has spent four weeks at a government-contracted shelter in Chicago, much of it alone in a room, quarantined with chicken pox. He spent his 9th birthday on Monday without his mom.
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Immigrant mom heads to court to get her son back
The only lie in the article, is the claim the Trump administration did this.
Trump had nothing to do with this. If you really had an "empathy gene cringe" and found it "F-ing disgusting"... then you should have done something about it in the past 20 years. This law has been in place since the late 90s. This started under Clinton.
Truth hurts buddy. You are clearly not as empathic as you claim, or you would have pushed to change this for 20 years, instead of just freaking out when a president you don't like, is in office.
the Bush administration and the Obama administration did not automatically incarcerate those seeking refugee status, they allowed them in to the public, until their refugee hearings, and if they did not get their refugee asylum status, they were deported together as a family. And yes, some did not show up for their hearings....
So the Obama admin got tired of that bull crud, and with newer technology, began a test program of putting ankle bracelet monitors on them, and when they wore monitors, it was 100% compliance, on showing up for their court dates.
I repeat, 100% compliance.
the "no tolerance" policy that Sessions announce a month or so ago, is what is causing this problem to this problematic situation.
Yes, Obama and Bush took kids away from sex traffickers, and Gang members, etc.... And Obama and Bush took in children without adults...but did NOT as policy.... like the ''no tolerance' policy, separate refugee parents from their children, seeking asylum as an automatic policy.