An undocumented Honduran woman says her children was taken from her in the middle of breastfeeding, an attorney who’d spoken to the woman told CNN.
The woman, whom CNN did not name, told attorney Natalia Cornelio of the Texas Civil Rights Project that she was subsequently handcuffed after resisting. The Honduran woman had been detained and placed into criminal proceedings as part of the Trump administration’s new policy of criminally prosecuting anyone caught illegally crossing the border.
Because children cannot be held in criminal detention, the new policy necessitates the separation of children from their parents.
A public defender for the Southern District of Texas in McAllen told CNN that, according to an unofficial count in his office, roughly 500 children have been separated from their parents since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the new policy last month.
Jesus wept.
While his so-called followers are busy chanting LOCK HER UP and BUILD THAT WALL and shouting racist epithets at the least among us.
I confess that I took our fragile democracy for granted. I no longer recognize my country. I’m sure that many Germans felt the same way at one point…
I hope the beast who took that child from its mother white feeding, burn in hell! This policy is illegal and it should be challenged in court!
I recall a Hungarian women talking about the Russians’ arrival in Hungary after chasing out the Germans.
She described a Russian soldier pulling a crying baby from the arms of its mother and shooting it in the head.
Goya couldn’t paint a more horrendous scene.
No ordinary policeman or soldier would take a job with ICE. He would resign on the spot.
I know a young man who served as a fwd artillery observer in Afghanistan for a year or so. He was a Lt.
He went back to TX, became a deputy sheriff, was first in his class, stayed 6 mos and quit. Could not stand the culture.
ICE is just short of the threshold for atrocities.
Brought to you by the people who frown on birth control and favor forced birth.
Perhaps we should be reporting on this in a manner that is more sensitive to the way the GOP/alt-right white nationalists view it…you know, by stopping this errant use of the word “children” and using something that is closer to how they truly perceive it, like “pups” or “litters” or “cubs”…maybe even “larvae”? Gotta be fair and balanced, you know…