[SIZE=7]Breastfeeding Mother Says Officials Took Her Baby At Immigrant Detention Center[/SIZE] President Donald Trump has ordered the separation of undocumented families as a “zero-tolerance” border policy.
By Doha Madani
06/13/2018 08:36 PM ET
An undocumented immigrant from Honduras recounted a story of federal agents separating her from her baby as she was breastfeeding, CNN reported Wednesday.
The unnamed woman said she was in an immigrant detention center awaiting prosecution for illegally entering the country when federal authorities took her daughter from her while she was trying to feed her. Attorney Natalia Cornelio, with the Texas Civil Rights Project, told CNN that in her interview with the migrant mother, the woman said she was handcuffed for resisting the separation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the family separation policy in May as a part of a “zero-tolerance” crackdown on immigration to the United States. President Donald Trump’s administration is taking children from parents who illegally enter the country, inciting backlash from legal groups and immigration activists.
A federal judge last week refused the administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that seeks to halt the government policy. U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw in San Diego ruled that, if true, [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Trump’s separation of families “is brutal, offensive, and fails to comport with traditional notions of fair play and decency.”
Nearly 1,800 immigrant families have been torn apart at the U.S.-Mexico border from October 2016 to February of this year, Reuters reported. Department of Health and Human Services official Steven Wagner told Congress in April the government had lost track of nearly 1,500 unaccompanied migrant children who had been placed with sponsors.
I wonder @Charley Flani why with all those billions of dollars in growth, why would 1800 mexicans choose to go through such humiliation when their country is apparently so rich and about to surpass the U.S. in a few short years … WHY? WHY? WHY? Why do they struggle so much to go to a failing, lazy,dying… what other word did you use… reverse gear engaging country like the U.S.?? Why go there?
Why are they leaving all those billions of dollars back home in the soon to be top ten super power. … top ten countries to watch, Mexico… leaving all that behind to go live in skid row and Ohio and Detroit?
“According to Pew, key factors in the decline are the Great Recession, which meant U.S. job losses in construction and other sectors where Mexican immigrants are likely to work; a rising number of deportations; and increasing numbers of U.S. Border Patrol agents.”
Economy iki improve tena under Trump the numbers will shoot up again as before. But the question remsins unanswered why are Mexicans leaving all that wealth all those billions of griwth back homw in Mexico, to go settle in a failed state? Even in recession years they still travelled to the U.S… WHY, I WONDER??