10 year old US citizen receiving treatment for brain cancer arrested with undocumented parents and removed to Mexico
10 year old US citizen receiving treatment for brain cancer arrested with undocumented parents and removed to Mexico
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
People asking if this is legal are missing the point. This is wrong, what is legal is whatever the executive decides, ICE can only be solved with constitunially supported extra judicial action.
I'm curious how deporting a legal citizen even works. Is there an exception for minors?
They deported the parents. Would you leave a sick children under the custody of a state who thinks you're sub-human due to your skin color? They had no choice but to bring the kid back with them to Mexico.
You end up in a "detention center". Usually privately owned.
at this point we should be made aware of the names of the humans causing this human suffering. name those who are 'just following orders' so they can be charged at a later date when the deaths happen.
Hitler found a bullet. His orderlies found the gallows.
Been asking that since they started removing people from their offices. Why are media outlets not getting the names of every single agent "just doing their job" they're just complacently watching like it's a fucking TV drama.
The media is almost wholly owned by the same people responsible for the policy setting. The people are propagandized into acceptance and complacency. Even the "left" in this country is in fact made up of capitalist apologists and collaborators. They installed "compatible leftists" into universities wholesale in the 60s and it hasn't changed. Milquetoast criticism of the most egregious harm is all you can ever expect. I have no idea how to overcome 80 or so years of brainwashing the populace. I am glad I never had kids.
The “just following orders” stage
If I were to carry out this order, I would refuse. Who cares whether she's "legal" or not - deporting a sick child is simply inhumane. Those goddam monsters!
But yes, that's quite right. The reign of terror in Hitler's Third Reich was also only possible with those who carried out orders and clung to the idea that they were not responsible. Hannah Arendt described all this very well in "The Banality of Evil".
Reading this now, and it strikes me as all the things I should have been taught about the Nazis beyond just the enormity of their cruelty:
Most important of all, how often just a little pushback stopped them stupid.
A student strike in German-occupied Belgium was enough pushback to stop the enforcement of the extradition of Jewish people there.
Italy, an ally at the beginning, would just say they would extradite their Jewish population, then not actually do it, in a loop, leaving the Germans frustrated simply by being lied to to their face and incapable of making progress.
You're left with a picture of a bunch of bureaucrats following orders who are incapable of comprehending disobedience nor knowing how to handle it.
They have made clear that US citizenship does not protect you from deportation. It couldn't be more obvious that no one is safe from these fascists. So fight on behalf of those who are being persecuted (immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, women) because they're just the current front line of the battle against forces that are coming for you sooner or later.
The cruelty is the point.
As per standard procedure. There will always be pople who will try to paint this as some kind of failure of the system. No, this is the system.
I know it makes no difference really, but is that legal? Could doctors not intervene? Could ICE be liable for death or injury incurred from deporting a citizen?
I mean, there were trials in Nuremberg eventually.
If there was functioning legal system in the US, they could.
It functions. That's part of the issue. It's mostly there to protect the rich and fuck the poor and minorities.
Even prior to the current political climate, police overreach in hospitals has happened multiple times. Usually involves police arresting a nurse/doctor for not doing what the police want (even if the medical staff are in the right). Medical staff loses pay for the day, patient harm does happen because of involuntary abandonment, and no punishment is metered for the police.
So yeah, doctors and nurses are quite helpless here.
Could ICE be liable for death or injury incurred from deporting a citizen?
Yes, but only if the court will uphold the law. And at that point, the punitive measures can't bring back life or brain function.
Asking those questions about Nazi-era German deportation/detention policy would yield the same answers.
Was she hospitalized? Not a lot the doctors can do if she was at home.
I vote, that, if we ever overpower these Nazis, we remove all their dicks, and deport them to Afghanistan.
The women Nazi supporters can go to Afghanistan too. But they don't need to be mutilated, just sterilized.
Because I'm like 100% certain the Taliban can come up with better punishments that they deserve
Stay classy 'murica!
