CNN’s Ed Lavandera tagged along with Border Patrol agents today when they apprehended two adults and four children who had illegally entered the United States. According to Lavandera, one of the moms was not aware of the policy that she would be separated from her children upon detention:
Just witnessed #BorderPatrol agents pick up a group of undocumented immigrants from Honduras, 2 adults and 4 children. One of the mothers told me she wasn’t aware that families were being separated because of the zero-tolerance policy. #immigration #bord… https://t.co/EwDsWtDqmf pic.twitter.com/MIH4uhd3q7
— ed lavandera (@edlavaCNN) June 15, 2018
Lavandera then interviewed Jonathan, an 11-year-old from Honduras. He, too, was separated from his family. First by his mother who is in Virginia and next by his cousins who abandoned him along the way to the United States:
Jonathan is 11-years-old. He told me he left Honduras with cousins but was abandoned along the way. He’s trying to reach his mother in Virginia. As an unaccompanied minor, he will likely end up in a juvenile detention facility. #immigration #border https://t.co/zrzbAkhGeD pic.twitter.com/SeSLq20Q87
— ed lavandera (@edlavaCNN) June 15, 2018
We would like to point out at this point that both the Obama and Trump administration imposed harsh policies on immigrants from Central America in the hope that families would not put their kids in danger with the false promise that they would be able to stay in America. You can hate the policies of both administrations all you want, but there was some method to the madness, so to speak.
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