You Can't Get There From Here

You Can't Get There From Here

"But our administration is kind of ignoring this longstanding international and national jurisprudence of basic beliefs to make this distinction that, if you come to a bridge, we’re not going to prosecute you, but if you come over the river and then find immigration or are caught by immigration, we’re prosecuting you."

"So if you cross any other way besides the bridge, we’re prosecuting you. But . . . you can’t cross the bridge."

"Are the kids whose parents are applying for asylum processed differently from kids whose parents are not applying for asylum?"

"I don’t know. These are questions we ask DHS, but we don’t know the answers."

"Why don’t you get an answer?"

"I don’t know. To me, if you’re going to justify this in some way under the law, the idea that these parents don’t have the ability to obtain very simple answers—what are my rights and when can I be reunited with my kid before I’m deported without them?—is horrible. And has to go far below anything we, as a civil society of law, should find acceptable. The fact that I, as an attorney specializing in this area, cannot go to a detention center and tell a mother or father what the legal procedure is for them to get their child or to reunite with their child, even if they want to go home?"

"And my answer is, “I don’t think you can.”

via John Wehrle

Originally shared by Miriam Rozian
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/whats-really-happening-asylum-seeking-families-separated/

Comments

  1. Pat KightJune 19, 2018 at 9:03 AM

    The more news gets out about what's going on at the border, the worse America looks. And the more it breaks my heart.

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