“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’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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:No human being is "illegal".

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.

Anonymous wrote:No human being is "illegal".

But behavior is

She can get cancer treatment anywhere Karen!!

No human being is "illegal".

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:"It's her parents' fault. Blame them."

MAGA

Well. It’s not their “fault” but having a US Citzen child is not and should not be a way for those without legal status to remain in the US. So, they must go.

The open cruelty on this board still astonishes me.

I would never sneak into another country illegally, have a baby, and then expect the country to allow me to stay because my child happened to be born there. We’ve lost the plot.

Literally our entire country was built on people emigrating for a better life.

Correct, legally. Why do liberals always remove the word illegal when talking about immigration?

Hmmm I think the Native Americans would beg to differ …

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 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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"It's her parents' fault. Blame them."

MAGA

Well. It’s not their “fault” but having a US Citzen child is not and should not be a way for those without legal status to remain in the US. So, they must go.

ie, "it's their fault" she has to go.

Yes, she is under their care. It is their fault if they were here illegally.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"It's her parents' fault. Blame them."

MAGA

Well. It’s not their “fault” but having a US Citzen child is not and should not be a way for those without legal status to remain in the US. So, they must go.

ie, "it's their fault" she has to go.

This is very sad but rue girl was not deported. Her parents chose to bring her with them. Terrible choices but the alternative would be to allow them to stay due to the sick child and that’s not a legal basis to be here.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Not a Trump supporter but it’s her parents who deserve the blame. My family member was deported under Obama after living here for 30 years. It was my family member’s fault, full stop. Personal responsibility is a thing.

Apparently all those J6 rioters didn’t get the personal responsibility memo.

They spent time in jail, some for years. That is taking responsibility.

The remedy for being in the US illegally, is deportation. And YAY! no family separation.

Ah yes a year in jail for bludgeoning a law enforcement officer to death and maiming others and millions of dollars of damage to a public building. That deserves a presidential pardon-but for a sick American child to stay in the USA with her peaceful parents for a bit longer to receive brain cancer treatment, that violates the law…

+1 maga favors pardons for those who kill police officers but no mercy for parents with a dying American child.

Who bludgeoned and who died from it