Border Patrol detains 9 year old U.S. citizen for 36 hours after falsely accusing her of lying about her identity

[someguy]

Thank god she was, presumably, a dual citizen. Or her mother is a citizen of Mexico. If she were just an American child in America with American parents she would have been truly fucked.

[HMSGoose]

ICE imprisonment and harassment of brown children at the border, to me, is like cavity searches for drugs. There isn’t even close to the potential for harm from the crime that even comes close to justifying the enforcement technique. That’s not even getting to the harm caused by "false positives. "

[lasermike026]

This is fascism, plain and simple.

They have made an enemy, they have concentration camps and they have been authorized by the supreme court.

Immigrants Facing Deportation Must Be Detained After Release From Criminal...

[Shuck]

Border Patrol doesn’t remotely seem to give a shit about “legal,” much less “moral,” especially these days.

[prius04]

There are actually people who think The Handmaid’s Tale can’t happen here.

[anon73430903]

It Can't Happen Here

[Cryptic]

The children were being driven to school, as they apparently are each day:

“When they got in line at the border at 4 a.m. Monday, traffic was moving slow.”

Huh? I’m upset about the little girl being detained away from her parents, but I’m also really confused why she’s leaving for school in the middle of the night. I can sort of understand why the border patrol agents would question two children alone at 4 am. Maybe I’m naive but that doesn’t seem like a normal occurrence to me.

[Wanderfound]

@Boundegar

Four so far.

A lot more than four.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/border-patrol-acquitted-involuntary-manslaughter.html

Dozens of bodies found in mass grave near South Texas border crossing

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The Border Patrol Serial Killer Is Part of a Long, Troubled History

On Monday, five weeks into her official tenure as chief of Border Patrol, Carla Provost traveled from Washington, D.C., to Laredo to discuss a confessed serial killer within her ranks. Juan David Ortiz, a 10-year Border Patrol veteran and supervisor in the region, had admitted he spent September driving sex workers out to rural Webb County and shooting them in the head. He allegedly killed four women before a fifth escaped last Friday and reported him to a state trooper, leading to his arrest and a confession the local DA described as “cold” and emotionless.

At a press conference, Provost offered her condolences to the victims’ loved ones. Then she turned, quickly, to another point. “This was one rogue individual,” she said. “I would hate for this to tarnish the great work that our men and women do.”

The defense was necessary. In the Laredo sector alone, which hosts some 1,700 of the 20,000 total Border Patrol agents, Ortiz is at least the fourth patrolman to be arrested this year. The other cases include an agent who allegedly murdered his lover and 1-year-old child; another allegedly sexually assaulted a woman after threatening her with deportation. Yet another agent, who hasn’t been identified or arrested, shot and killed an unarmed 20-year-old Guatemalan woman in May. In a question during Monday’s press conference, one reporter charitably dubbed this history “a series of very tragic coincidences.”

But the rash of Border Patrol misconduct in Laredo is nothing new for the agency sometimes called the “green monster.” Rather, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency has long been a hotbed of violence and corruption.

From 2005 to 2012, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents were arrested 2,170 times for misconduct, such as domestic violence and drunk driving, government inspectors found. CBP, which includes Border Patrol and customs agents, was also the target of 1,187 complaints of excessive force from 2007 to 2012. Since 2004, more than 200 agents have been arrested on corruption-related charges, including at least 13 under Trump. And a 2013 government-commissioned report found that Border Patrol agents regularly stepped in the paths of cars to justify firing at drivers, as well as shooting at rock-throwers, including teenagers on the Mexican side, with the intent to kill.

And then we have all of the people dying in ICE custody…

22 immigrants died in ICE detention centers during the past 2 years

https://www.aclu.org/report/fatal-neglect-how-ice-ignores-death-detention

[Wanderfound]

@Cryptic

I’m also really confused why she’s leaving for school in the middle of the night

Because it routinely requires hours to get past the Border Patrol thugs.

@Cryptic

I can sort of understand why the border patrol agents would question two children alone at 4 am.

They did not just “question” them. They falsely arrested them, then imprisoned them for a day and a half.

[jerwin]

Supreme Court Reinforces Mandatory Detention of Immigrants

[Wanderfound]

This is just one county:

ICE Issued False Deportation Requests for 420 U.S. Citizens in Miami-Dade,...

[Wanderfound]

David Slack (slack2thefuture)

[Bobo]

If your plan is to turn MAGA fans, you’re going to have to do a bit of video editing to make the young lass more CA blonde, and less Mexico brunette (and maybe change to name to something more “American” like “Johnson”… /manIwishitwassarcasm

[madmama]

Here in SW Florida, school buses routinely begin picking up elementary school children at 5-5:30AM. Since they bus each age group separately (elementary school, middle school and high school) it’s the only way that they have enough buses for everyone.

[Andy_Grilz]

It IS. Pressuring anyone into a confession under duress is illegal. Doing it to a child is evil beyond words

[lishevita]

There are many reasons that the family may start the day at 4am, the main reason being that it can easily take three hours to cross the border.

The story may be somewhat misleading, as well.

It would not be surprising for the family to have gotten into the car line to cross the border at 4am (like every other morning) and then realize at 7:30 am that it was taking longer than usual and the kids are going to be late to school. So, mom drops the kids off where they can pop over to Chaparral (aka PedWest) which would take a minimum of 30 minutes to cross at that hour. Then the kids could catch an Uber over by the outlet store mall that’s right next to PedWest on the US side.