Nursing Child In Limbo After DHS Raid
Breastfeeding baby's mom among those detained
LISA ROSSI
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
December 13, 2006
Marshalltown, Ia. — A priest's and nun’s mission to find the mother of a nursing baby was thwarted today after they said officials from Camp Dodge would not let them inside to tell their story.
Sister Christine Feagan, from the St. Mary’s Hispanic Ministry, and The Rev. Jim Miller, who is a priest from the St. Mary’s Parish, both said they drove to Camp Dodge this afternoon to find out the status of a nursing mother who was deported and nursing a baby. They were also seeking a father with an ashmatic child.
I understand the basic idea behind this raid. I support enforcing our laws and trying to protect the US from people wanting to hurt it.
But I don't understand this shit.
He said an ICE officer at the facility “wouldn’t tell us anything about anybody.”
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They said they don’t know when the girl, whose father is absent, will be reunited with her mother.
The child, whose name was not provided by ministry staff, cried little, and stared at the different faces visiting the ministry. Women speaking a mixture of Spanish and English coordinated plans with how they would take care of children left behind.
Carmen Montealegre is one of the women who is taking care of two of her friends’ children with family displaced by the arrests. One of the children, a seven-year-old, asks frequently why her mother was detained, she said.
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The baby left behind has her own problems.
She has been difficult to feed since her mother was arrested, Feagan said.
“The mother was breastfeeding the baby,” Feagan said. “The baby doesn’t want to eat. Another tried to breastfeed, but she knew it wasn’t her.”
Feagan said she and advocates for local Hispanic families have tried to pinpoint exactly how many children are in family-limbo to try to organize help.
The majority of the comments at the site are indefensible.
These aren't defective blenders we're returning to the manufacturer,
they are breathing loving human beings.
What happens with the children?
To some watching TV, these are merely illegal immigrants. To teachers like Brad Hawkes, they are the parents of students at his school.
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Yesterday, secretaries and teachers all over the Cache and Logan City School Districts found themselves calling students' family members or relatives to pick them up from school. Some kids only have one parent to go home to and others have none, they're with relatives.
It's possible those kids may not come back to school for a while. In fact, some may never return. And to think, they were there just yesterday.
I got nothing. I'm shaking like a leaf.
2 comments:
Cruel bastards! They treat people like animals.
In their haste to push through their agenda, they forget the human face of these people. Hitler would be so proud of them. . .
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