Mexican kids held for months as punishment for border-crossing(Retro Article)

The Washinton Post ^ | March 11, 2015 | Joshua Partlow

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Last spring, as Central American children flooded into Texas in a way he had never seen in his three-decade career, Border Patrol agent Robert Harris decided to experiment. His intelligence analysts estimated that 78 percent of the guides smuggling other migrants were Mexicans younger than 18 — teenagers often hired or conscripted by drug cartels that knew they would not be prosecuted if caught — and he wanted to attack this loophole. “Why don’t we remove these juveniles from the smuggling cycle?” Harris, the outgoing commander of the Laredo sector of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, recalled thinking. Now, as a result of that decision, young Mexicans are being held for months without charge in shelters across the United States, sometimes without their parents’ knowledge. Since the program began in May, 536 juveniles have been held — 248 of whom have been deported to Mexico after an average stay of 75 days, according to Border Patrol statistics. Mexican authorities say some of these repeat border-crossers have spent as much as six months in U.S. custody while they await an appearance before an immigration judge.

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Hmmmmm. Trump is being accused of being a heartness nazi yet this program started under Obama. Never heard him being called the names of what Trump is being accused of.

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On CNN and MSNBC, the activists lost control of the message when the background chanters started yelling “No Wall”, “No Wall”

But I thought this was about keeping the family together?

Hmmmmmmm.

[alloysteel]

Note the date on this story.

The Obama regime was still entrenched in the White Hut.

Not all the “families” arriving for “refugee” status were actually families. Some were human traffickers dealing in adolescent and younger children.

It would be interesting to learn if this was a consideration by anybody in the Obama regime.

[butlerweave]

Obama gave the kids away as Gifts to Friends

[neverevergiveup]

Children should’t be hurt, for any reason, ever. That said, the reasons these children are hurting are many, and the ‘adults’ in their lives, including their home nation government, have failed them dramatically.

[Liz]

Femi/Nazis went ballistic when they learned that the Obama admin separated alien
kids by (gasp) gender at a US Customs center in Nogales, Arizona, June 18, 2014.

A number of prominent liberals — even an ex-Obama admin — waved the cage photos of children in outrage.
The raging liberals wrongfully concluded the cages were Trump's treatment of alien children. But the photo was vintage Obama-era.
IT GETS WORSE-----after Obama locked up children in cages, he issued an order to march the kids to the showers.

To save Obama's Halfrican *** liberals then concocted the fiction that Trump forcibly separated kids from parents.

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Compared to the hardships of crossing forests, jungles and
barren deserts, an US facility should seem like day camp.

I say BullSh%T

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There is more truth in that statement than most people realize.

Children’s well being is the last thing Dims are really concerned about.

Whatta farce!

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"Note the date on this story."

Uh, yeah.

That's why I posted it and made references to Obama in my first comments.

Thanks, though.

[antidemoncrat]

The Democrats have conveniently forgot that in 2009, Chuck Schumer said they were not undocumented immigrants but illegal aliens and should be treated as such.