@FlySwiftAir you must be so proud. Do you think your children and grandchildren will be proud of you when they find out how you oarticipated in this genocide? Can’t help wondering if the corp execs will be proud when your name is mentioned in future history books🤔1/15
From a post by Janice Rosenberg to Witness Tornillo Target MPP-Here's an update on the Honduran woman with the two sick children who was deported Tuesday to Guatemala City. They've been located by Every.Last.One and are being given support there:
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On 12/30/19, a young mother & her 2 daughters (ages 1 & 6) entered U.S. after fleeing death threats in Honduras. A gang was demanding protection money which they could not pay. Threats were not idle, as this gang had already killed neighbors of theirs, including children.3/15
They could not go to the police. Too often, reporting to the police put people at greater risk.
Desperate to save her children’s lives, the mother made a choice that any parent in her shoes would make. They would seek the safety of asylum in the United States.
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Desperate to save her children’s lives, the mother made a choice that any parent in her shoes would make. They would seek the safety of asylum in the United States.
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The children arrived at the border in good health, eager to reunite with their father who was waiting for them in the US. But 5 days into life in the freezing, deprivational confinement of border patrol cages, the 1 year old got sick.5/15
In those 5 days, cold burritos had been thrown at them for breakfast & lunch, a slice of meat & bread for dinner. The children were given no milk.
Fluorescent lights, shining perpetually, combined with discomfort of the cold floor & empty bellies to deprive them of sleep.6/15
Fluorescent lights, shining perpetually, combined with discomfort of the cold floor & empty bellies to deprive them of sleep.6/15
The 1 year old baby, now not only sick but also traumatized by the harsh environment & her mother’s distress, was given very little treatment. Her health deteriorated. Her older sister also fell ill. Both were hospitalized. 8/15
The 1 year old was diagnosed with 2 infections & dehydration. She’d developed a cough that badly shook her small body. She had difficulty breathing. She required IV fluids & a respiratory monitor. Despite the condition of these children, government moved to have them...9/15
...quickly removed to Guatemala as part of America’s new program to outsource it’s harsh rejection of all asylum seekers . These small children & their mother, fleeing death threats in their own country, wld now B forced into another country, one strange to them & equally...10/15
...affected by widespread violence especially toward vulnerable populations. Any due process for this family was entirely dispensed with. @CBP refused to allow mother to meet with attorney. The US gov refused to release papers critical to case, such as the removal order.11/15
They were denied their request to have an independent pediatrician examine the children. The morning just before the removal order was to go into effect, both children were discharged from the hospital. The 1 year old’s IV was removed & despite the severity of her illness...12/15
...& lack of any recuperative rest, an RN signed an order allowing her to travel in the infection-ridden environment of an airplane to a strange land with no support.
There would be no sleep for this family, as the processing for those being removed would begin at 1:00am 13/15
There would be no sleep for this family, as the processing for those being removed would begin at 1:00am 13/15
The depleted 1 year old baby, her mother, & 6 year old sister would be forced onto a @FlySwiftAir plane for removal , still wearing clothes they’d arrived in 2 weeks earlier. They have no one in Guatemala. They will arrive in a strange land with nothing.14/15
