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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; border; illegalaliens; tyranny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Michael Martinez and Jaqueline Hurtado Love their country. Ours, not so much. Even if they were born here.


21 posted on 06/21/2014 4:49:52 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

40% of the Honduran population is under 14.


22 posted on 06/21/2014 4:55:04 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Cvengr

These invaders have the gall to send their children to invade. Arrest the kids, deport them, and ban the parents from ever entering. Stay in you own freakin’ loser country!


23 posted on 06/21/2014 4:57:06 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Bubbette; All
sent the whole lot of those "wetbacks" to southern Meheco.
sell off all their possessions (for the fines/tickets), then
"brand" them before the flight.

24 posted on 06/21/2014 4:57:26 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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To: Oldeconomybuyer
More Alinsky/Cloward-Piven agitprop/
25 posted on 06/21/2014 4:58:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wonder how many patriots took up arms against the British because they just wanted something better for their children. I’m guessing most of them did.


26 posted on 06/21/2014 5:01:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek

So I guess your fine with your children having something worse.


27 posted on 06/21/2014 5:04:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What parent who loves their child would put them in this kind of danger?

Sorry, Elva. I’m not buying your sob story!


28 posted on 06/21/2014 5:05:01 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (...staying home isn't an option.)
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To: GeronL

“child abandonment is a crime I thought”

I thought so too. Never in a million years would I have sent my children alone into such a dangerous situation. It’s not just abandonment, it’s cruelty, neglect, endangerment and certainly, it was clearly done with “malice aforethought.”

The mother is a felon. And not just for having apparently gotten into the U.S. illegally.


29 posted on 06/21/2014 5:05:16 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, I think its pathetic that they won’t make things better for their kids there. In fact, they risk their own kids rather than their own pathetic skin.


30 posted on 06/21/2014 5:05:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek

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

I’d vote for you! :)

That is a great idea. The children are very likely adorable (although I wonder about serious psychological abandonment issues) and there are so many couples who want desperately to care for a child of their own.


31 posted on 06/21/2014 5:07:15 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This mother should have the children taken from her.

People go NUTS if a child is left unattended in a car for one minute in this country and I’m expected to feel sorry for this woman? Not on your life.

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32 posted on 06/21/2014 5:09:23 PM PDT by Mears
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To: cripplecreek

When I was in college I had a friend who worked for an organization that spent all its time bringing in Somalis and Hmong and Serbians and anybody else who wanted in. I always felt that was cowardly. If you really want to help them, go over there and help them straighten out their country, don’t bring them over here and turn us into Somalia.


33 posted on 06/21/2014 5:09:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here’s how it works in my town - unfortunately:

Daddy has two women w/ two families - one in Guatemala, one in FL. The wife in FL spits out a kid every 14 months - like clockwork.

The women shop in Walmart w/ ebt cards like it’s their God given right. If their kids get sick, they just wheel them down on the stroller to the emergency room. Front of the line - no charge.

The men drive cars and even if they get pulled over w/ no license (which happens a lot), nothing ever comes of it. They might spend 3-4 days in the detention center and lose the car, but they’ll just start all over again.

Usually there is a shady attorney that handles their benefits and taxes and gets them an ITIN number. This allows businesses to hire them and actually withold their federal taxes.

Then the attorney really gets creative with the tax returns - EITC fraud even in this little town would probably blow all our minds. This is where we are getting clobbered.

All the while, the illegal sends 1/2 his pay back to Guatemala - through western union.


34 posted on 06/21/2014 5:10:07 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Horseshit. These humanoids are gambling the lives of their kids in order to gain their own way into the US for free stuff. GO TO HELL, INVADER.


35 posted on 06/21/2014 5:10:35 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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To: GeronL

Who are separating the illegal migrants families? Certainly, not the U.S., parents sent their kids to U.S. alone to confront possible death, rape and all kind of abuse by the human traffic cartel and when the head of migrant families who are already living illegally in U.S. are deported, instead of taking with them their children they opt for the breaking of their family and abandon their children in a foreign country while demanding that in the name of “family reunification” the U.S. must respect their human right to invade our country.


36 posted on 06/21/2014 5:13:25 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Dqban22

Obama is in a terrible hurry. He has 2 1/2 years left to totally change the country and make a return to the American dream impossible. He is burying us under an illegal invasion and intends to make sure that the US becomes a socialist hell before he leaves.


37 posted on 06/21/2014 5:23:19 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29

Why doesn’t U.S. adopt a compressive immigration legislation taking as a model the Mexican immigration laws?


38 posted on 06/21/2014 5:30:24 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Dqban22

Obama and the progressive left in the US would never adopt the tough Mexican immigration laws. It would be an impediment to the seditious plans they have for America.


39 posted on 06/21/2014 5:36:40 PM PDT by Truth29
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http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/06/19/what-you-are-not-being-told-about-the-invasion-of-america/

19 Jun, 2014- by Dave Hodges




Excerpt:

“It’s about to get worse. . . Entire villages are emptying out and coming from Central America through Mexico to the United States. They’ll be hitting in the next couple weeks. What you are seeing right now is the tip of the iceberg.”

The Daily Caller reports, “a leaked estimate by a top official in the Department of Homeland Security says the 12-month inflow will reach 90,000 by October, and then grow by another 142,000 in the next 12 months before October 2015.” That’s over 230,000, nearly a quarter million that the Democrats hope to dump on US taxpayers. Soon, this number will have grown by millions.

The train that departs from Nicaragua and heads north to the United States. The train illegally brings an estimated 500,000 people per year to the United States.




The Marxist/Muslim is responsible for this...his Cloward-Piven scheme all going as planned.



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40 posted on 06/21/2014 5:45:07 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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