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Central American immigrant parents agonize when child crosses border alone
CNN ^ | June 21, 2014 | By Michael Martinez and Jaqueline Hurtado

Posted on 06/21/2014 4:33:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Like many immigrant parents of Central American children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border alone, Elva Marroquin Rosales is now in agony over what became of her two small youngsters who dared to enter the United States illegally by crossing Rio Grande River.

For two or three weeks, the Los Angeles area mother heard nothing about her son Angel, 10, and daughter Dulce, 7. It's a silence many Central American families in the United States endure, wondering for weeks or even months if their child is alive or dead.

Then, Marroquin finally heard word about two weeks ago: she received a phone call from an "immigration" official in Texas who desperately sought the mother's voice in order to calm her two sobbing children, who were apparently in a detention facility.

"My children were heartbroken, sad, tearful, crying beyond comparison, begging me to take them out of there," Marroquin, 25, said. "Their begging was so distressing because I couldn't run to get them."

Since then, Marroquin has been unable to track down the detention facility in Texas that called her, and now the angst of her children's absence goes on, day after day.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; border; illegalaliens; tyranny
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A 25 year old illegal alien "Mom" sends her 10 year old son and 7 year old daughter alone with a coyote the length of Mexico and illegally enter the US ... and we're supposed to feel sorry for them? Deport the whole damned bunch of these invaders. They will be a burden on Child Protective Services for the next decade.
1 posted on 06/21/2014 4:33:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

next decade.nope
NEXT DECADE’S


2 posted on 06/21/2014 4:35:14 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people are sending their kids across and then pretending to be victims of something


3 posted on 06/21/2014 4:36:44 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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It’ child abuse / neglect in this country if you leave your 8 year old to babysit your 5 year old while you walk to the corner to get a loaf of bread. This is child abuse, not “agonizing.”


4 posted on 06/21/2014 4:37:02 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Catch ‘em, neuter ‘em...


5 posted on 06/21/2014 4:37:20 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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Cry me a river. I’m agonizing for the future of my grandchildren and their grandchildren. **** these so called Central American “parents”. They all are scumbags for allowing their children to be used as props by the white boys down at the DNC.


6 posted on 06/21/2014 4:37:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Feed the wacko enrviromentalists to the starving polar bears.)
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Central American immigrant parents agonize when child crosses border alone

Balderdash.
They DUMPED their children, nothing less.

7 posted on 06/21/2014 4:37:30 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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“In Marroquin’s case, she and her husband have been living in the United States for six years and now have an 8-month-old baby, their third child, whom the two older siblings haven’t met face-to-face.”

They abandoned two children for six years? Wouldn’t that be the very definition of `unfit parents’ ?
Well, we must reunite these people ASAP and pay them a large sum for their emotional distress.


8 posted on 06/21/2014 4:38:41 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Maybe this is cold-hearted, but I can’t think of them as “her” children any more. She effectively abandoned them.

She is shedding crocodile tears.


9 posted on 06/21/2014 4:38:59 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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child abandonment is a crime I thought


10 posted on 06/21/2014 4:41:52 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Yep - Elva should not have sent her children to the U$A alone. This is just part two of the plan - gin up some pity for the ‘parent$’ so they can come here and $ign up for the goodie$.


11 posted on 06/21/2014 4:42:40 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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Then don't send them across!!! What kind of a parent has no control of children that young? Another victim, give me something.
12 posted on 06/21/2014 4:42:52 PM PDT by Fungi
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Wait a minute!! The article says “the Los Angeles area mother”....huh? She’s in this country and the kids are sent over the border from where to find her in LA???? If that’s what was going on they should be sent back to whoever sent them across ( I don’t think those 2 kids could cross the Rio Grande alone) and send mom packing too.


13 posted on 06/21/2014 4:43:36 PM PDT by Bubbette
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If it hurts when you do that....

DON'T DO THAT!

/johnny

14 posted on 06/21/2014 4:44:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Deport them all, postage due.


15 posted on 06/21/2014 4:45:38 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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This woman is a child neglector.

Send her kids back where they belong. I don’t want to watch or pay for them.


16 posted on 06/21/2014 4:46:03 PM PDT by dforest
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They couldn’t be happier their child got one foot on dry land.


17 posted on 06/21/2014 4:46:49 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Not to worry, Obama will have them adopted by some marvelous fun loving gay couple. /s


18 posted on 06/21/2014 4:47:25 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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"and we're supposed to feel sorry for them? Deport the whole damned bunch of these invaders"
Absolute Barbara $trei$and..Then keep 'Em @ home!
this was "planned" since January....NBC!
Nothin' but cr@p

19 posted on 06/21/2014 4:47:49 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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They dumped their children knowing that we won’t deport them and that we’ll accept the parent once the child has some kind of status.

If I were president I would be loudly talking about the possibility of putting these abandoned children up for adoption by American families.


20 posted on 06/21/2014 4:48:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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