Re:Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE
by Veelox on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:26PM
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Looking at the article in depth I was able to find this quote
> Fluharty questions the grounds for the separation of Maria and her children. She said her client walked up to the border and turned herself in to immigration authorities, which contradicts ICE's claim that she was arrested after crossing the border illegally.
This is also complicated by the fact that Maria falsely claimed US citizenship and thus is barred from entering the US for life.
Do you have a case of someone not barred from entering the US for life has their children separated from them?
This is not the case. Even a family that arrives together and requests asylum will be split up. See (for example) https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/us/guatemalan-immigrant-famil...
"After the rest of the family took their chances by presenting themselves to US immigration authorities, the possibility of forced separation became reality. The 20-year-old son was sent to a detention center in San Diego. Maria and her three youngest children were shipped to a family detention center in Dilley, Texas -- about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio."
"The two youngest members of the Villatoro family are now at a detention center in New York state while their mom remains detained in Texas."
>1) Do we disagree on the facts of the matter?
Yes. Your understanding doesn't seem to match the current policy or well-documented effects of said policy.
>2) Why does entering the US illegally count as a trivial affair?
It's not trivial. The issue is that a four year old child can't meaningfully be held to have committed a crime and so should not be incarcerated.
Normally a child will be sent to some kind of foster care if they cannot be with their parents, not taken from their parent and held in a chainlink cage.