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Family Separation at the Border: US citizens are now being detained

That’s good stuff. Security theater continues to get worse.
 
Two American women detained in Montana by border agents for speaking Spanish to each other.

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/6951...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190215

“When one of the women asked whether they were being detained "because of our profiles," O'Neal replied, "No, it has nothing to do with that. It's the fact that it has to do with you guys speaking Spanish in the store, in a state where it's predominantly English-speaking, OK?"

The women say they were detained for a total of around 40 minutes — spending much of it standing by the CBP car.

"So it is illegal to speak Spanish in Montana?" Suda asked O'Neal.

"Well, ma'am it's not illegal, it's just very unheard of up here," the agent said.

"The United States has no official language," the suit states, adding, "Many United States citizens, and many non-citizens who are in this country lawfully, are not fluent in English."

After O'Neal's supervisor arrived at the scene, Suda asked whether they would have been detained if they had been speaking French in the store. For reference, Havre is only about 20 miles from the U.S.-Canada border.

"No, we don't do that," the supervisor replied, according to the court document.”

So the Canadian border agent doesn’t stop people for speaking French but they stop people for speaking Spanish.


“The lawsuit also alleges that Suda and Hernandez had narrowly missed being detained earlier in 2018, when a CBP agent who saw them dancing one night took photos of them that he shared with other agents, along with a message: "There are two Mexicans at the bar."

The incident might have resulted in the pair being detained, the suit says, if another agent hadn't replied that he recognized the women — and that they were friends with his wife.”
 
PhDeac said:
“The lawsuit also alleges that Suda and Hernandez had narrowly missed being detained earlier in 2018, when a CBP agent who saw them dancing one night took photos of them that he shared with other agents, along with a message: "There are two Mexicans at the bar."

The incident might have resulted in the pair being detained, the suit says, if another agent hadn't replied that he recognized the women — and that they were friends with his wife.”
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wow, creeper
 
12 detained babies have been released from ICE custody in Dilley, Texas

ICE officers have released 12 of the infants that were being held at a rural Texas detention center, where immigrant advocates claim they dealt with dirty water, limited baby food and a lack of medical care. The release comes just days after immigration advocates called on the Department of Homeland Security to "intervene immediately."

In an email Monday, ICE said there were 16 infants younger than a year old held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas as of Friday, March 1. The status of the remaining four babies is unclear. ICE also said there was another infant under the age of one detained at the Texas Karnes detention center. Both facilities are about an hour away from San Antonio, the nearest metropolitan center.

All the mothers and their infants were released to friends and family members who were were "ready to buy them a bus or plane ticket and receive them in their home," said Katy Murdza, the advocacy coordinator at the American Immigration Council's Dilley Pro Bono Project.
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Doctors who visited the babies in Dilley said that a detention center was no place for an infant.

Many infants lost weight after arriving at the detention center because the Dilley facility has only one type of formula available, and it needs to be special requested, which caused delays in accessing it, said Murdza. Mothers weren't given bottled water to mix with the formula, forcing infants to drink the tap water, which she described as potentially unsafe.

"Our staff doesn't even drink the water here," Murdza said. "It smells like chlorine."
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It takes a special level of cruelty to treat infants like that. Overall policy is bad enough, but how can you deprive infants of safe water.
 
06deacon said:
It takes a special level of cruelty to treat infants like that. Overall policy is bad enough, but how can you deprive infants of safe water.
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The cruelty is the point.
 
PhDeac said:
The cruelty is the point.
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I get that, at least from a high level directive where you’re half a country away from seeing the consequences. But boots on the ground actually causing in-person suffering of an infant. Dunno who could do that.
 
06deacon said:
I get that, at least from a high level directive where you’re half a country away from seeing the consequences. But boots on the ground actually causing in-person suffering of an infant. Dunno who could do that.
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The type of cruel people who love executing these cruel policies.
 
06deacon said:
I get that, at least from a high level directive where you’re half a country away from seeing the consequences. But boots on the ground actually causing in-person suffering of an infant. Dunno who could do that.
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Get out more.
 
 
 
Republicans love to say Democrats have moved to the extreme on abortion but I remember when Republicans were generally fine with abortion in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother was at risk. Just in the last few weeks we’ve seen Republicans come out against abortion for teenages raped in US custody possibly by people employed by the US government and against abortion in very rare circumstances when mothers are about to die giving birth. Pure evil.
 
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