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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 [b]just cause people to become unsympathetic[/b]. 
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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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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