Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Immigrant Fathers & Children on Hunger Strike in Texas Detention Center


Elsewhere in Texas, immigrant rights groups say some 70 immigrant fathers and some of their children have launched a hunger strike as they languish inside the Karnes County detention center, a for-profit immigration jail under contract with ICE. The fathers on strike had been previously separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” crackdown. Now reunited behind bars, fathers and their children are demanding immediate freedom. This is one of the hunger strikers, speaking by phone with the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders.

Father in ICE detention: “Today we started a hunger strike. Our children are with us. They are not attending their schools, nor are they eating. We are afraid that ICE is going to retaliate against us and separate us again, as they separated 16 parents on August 15th. … I don’t understand the laws of this country. They are unjust. The majority of the parents who were reunited were freed.”
The hunger strike at Karnes detention center comes as new numbers released by the Trump administration show at least 136 migrant children separated from their parents at the border are still in U.S. government custody, more than two months after a deadline set by a federal judge for reunification. Three of the children are under the age of 5.

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/28/headlines/immigrant_fathers_children_on_hunger_strike_in_texas_detention_center

No problemo just release them back across the border--problem solved.

bahmer

Amen and Amen

Mom8052 Loc: Lost in the mountains of New Mexico

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Send them back over the border and make sure that they understand, DO NOT COME BACK!

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Let em starve. Saves us money.

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

Fingerprint every one of them then deport them by ship to the southern most port in Mexico.

If they show up in America again give them a nice long stay in the crossbar hotel.

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

The food is there they can eat or do without. The hunger strike won't last very long.

eden

Comprehensive Immigration Reform would have to address the southern border issues like this.
In this hyper partisan atmosphere such reform is unlikely and both major parties can share the blame.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Why spend the money? Do them like I did the tweekers squatting on the property to the north of mine. Tell them, this fence is the line between us. That side is my property. If you don't want your dogs, or yourselves to get shot, respect the fence, and stay off my side. And don't be wishy washy about it. Make it clear.
I did, and they respect the fence. I only had to shoot one of their dogs to make them know that I was serious.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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Comprehensive Immigration Reform would have to address the southern border issues like this????

Simple just build the dammed wall, and stop stupid Obama's "Catch & Release" policy and have mandatory E-Verify

archie bunker Loc: Texas

See my post above. Why over complicate it?

Carol Kelly

Carol Kelly

Send ‘em back across the border and don’t allow them back in. What use are they here?

Carol Kelly

Good for you. If, as that Russian predicted several years ago, the USA splits four ways I want to go with Texas.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Come on!
I told that knucklehead that in front of 3 deputy sheriff dept. officers. He was in handcuffs, and under arrest for stealing my property, and they told him that I was serious, and have the right to defend my property.
Sure, he can sue me in civil court for k*****g his dog since I don't have proof that it was bothering my horse, but I doubt that a guy stealing metal to sell for scap to get drugs will do that.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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Crews Begin Construction of New Wall at El Paso-Juárez Border


On the U.S.-Mexico border, construction crews have begun work on a new steel wall separating El Paso, Texas, from neighboring Ciudad Juárez. The new 4-mile-long section of 18-foot-high wall will replace an existing border fence, at an estimated cost of $22 million. This is El Paso County Commissioner David Stout speaking at a protest against the wall earlier this week.

David Stout: “It damages this community, because ours is a binational community. We all have family, friends and co-workers who live on that side and work here, or vice versa. And in my opinion, we’re sending a very ugly message to our brothers in Mexico, while it’s one of the countries we in the United States depend on the most economically, especially the communities along the border.”



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