Who bludgeoned and who died from it |
Laws still allow for discretion. During Trump’s first administration, cases like this were sometimes granted a stay of removal for serious humanitarian reasons. This case seems like it would fall under that. Maybe since the girl in recovery, and could continue to receive care in Mexico, they decided it didn’t meet that standard? The family says they cannot get care in Mexico, which I doubt is completely true. Once our administration is done gutting Medicaid etc, the family won’t be able to afford it here either. I hope the girl’s prognosis is good. If not, then I am shocked that the parents weren’t granted a stay to allow the girl to continue to receive treatment. But we cannot grant a stay of removal for every single parent whose kid has some kind of medical condition. |
Yes, she is under their care. It is their fault if they were here illegally. |
They have no health care system in Mexico? Why can’t she receive treatment there? The parents have no right to be here. This family are scammers who don’t want to pay. The family was probably on Medicaid and numerous welfare programs, draining American taxpayers. This family’s circumstances are entirely of their own making. They had to know this was a possibility when they came here illegally, knowing they have no basis to be in this country. |
Sorry, mine did it the legal way, in 1960. It cost a good amount of money too. Zero sympathy for those who choose to cheat the system. |
They were caught in an immigration checkpoint close to the border. The city they lived in is a border town in Texas on the Rio Grande on the US side. They were going to Houston for medical treatment and had to pass the checkpoint. There are multiple checkpoints on the US side of the border that are up to 100 miles north from border crossings across CA, TX, NM, and Arizona.
This has been an issue for years that US born children who are in the Rio Grande Valley and need medical treatment in San Antonio or Houston don't access it because their undocumented parents are afraid of passing by the checkpoints. This is from a NYT article in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/us/checkpoints-isolate-many-immigrants-in-texas-rio-grande-valley.html In this part of South Texas, there are only two major highways leading north from the border, and each has a checkpoint, in Falfurrias and in Sarita. Those checkpoints are surrounded by ranches, detection sensors and rough terrain...For decades, these interior checkpoints up to 100 miles north of the border have left thousands of undocumented immigrants and their families in the Rio Grande Valley in something of a twilight zone. While I feel for the family and I hope the girl does continue to get treatment. But the mother's quote is hard to read if they are looking for sympathy particularly when they have six kids. “I want my children to be able to access the medical care they need, to attend their schools, and live their lives in the only country they know as home. They are American citizens, it is their right. But it is also their right to be raised by their parents in that home,” said the mother of the children. It really isn't their right to have parent's in that home, so statement like that just cause people to become unsympathetic. |
Do MAGA have sympathy (i.e. really empathy) for anyone besides Trump? I'm seriously asking. Do they have empathy for people beyond their own families? I really don't think so. |
The title is misleading.
The article posted makes clear that it’s up to the families whether to leave their US citizen child in the care of a guardian in the US, or take the child back to Mexico. The article also notes that the family has a 17 year old child (US citizen) that they “left behind” in the US when they returned to Mexico. I don’t know the requirements of guardianship but I wonder if they could’ve left the child in the care of her 17 year old sibling. I think the take away of this very sad situation is that if you are illegal and your children are US citizens, you need to set up a guardianship plan for who will care for them, so they can remain in the US, if the parents are deported. |
No human being is "illegal". |
She can get cancer treatment anywhere Karen!! |
But behavior is |
Ok apologies I am the pp who said “if you are illegal.” I should’ve said “if you are in the US illegally.” I did not mean offense, im typing on my phone. |
If you speed, you take the risk of a ticket. If you cross a border illegally, you take the risk of being removed. They're called laws. |
Why does this woman deserve our empathy? She willingly and knowingly had babies in a country where her presence is illegal. Manipulation and gaming the system isn’t deserving of empathy. |
It’s all just a scam for free stuff. I bet they are not even paying for the treatment. She basically admits she came here illegally and had anchor babies so she could stay. |