Thread: Immigrant children being shipped to `orphan camps,' source c

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As the immigration reform legislation reaches a critical circuit in the U.S. Senate, it is not inappropriate to raise an important question that all Senators must consider when they vote.
Over the past year, there have been numerous federal operations, carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where thousands of immigrants have been rounded up in surprise workplace raids — a number of them likely not even reported in the national press.

In many of those cases, the children of the immigrants, a number of them U.S. citizens, were at school or in daycare when the raids came down.

Their parents were whisked off to immigration detention centers around the country and many have since been deported back to their native countries.

But what has happened to the children — again, some certainly born in the United States and legally U.S. citizens? The mainstream press doesn’t seem to have connected all those dots — nor have most of our political leaders.

Check out this March 2007 story from the Washington Post:

NEW BEDFORD, Mass -- During her two years working in a garment factory alongside hundreds of other immigrants, there were few assurances in Marta Escoto's uncertain life. One of them was the promise she made to her children -- I will always take care of you.

It was a promise she was unable to keep this month. Escoto and at least 360 other illegal immigrants were taken into custody here March 6 after a raid by federal agents on the Michael Bianco Inc. factory — a military contractor 60 miles south of Boston. Many of them, including Escoto, 38, were women whose detention [she was shipped to Texas] separated them from their children, some of whom were stranded at day-care centers, schools, or friends' or relatives' homes.

… With dozens of children like Escoto's left without parents, the raid immediately sparked a public outcry here. The Massachusetts Department of Social Services dispatched two teams of 18 social workers to ask detainees in Texas how their children were being cared for.

… Under public pressure, immigration officials began to send single parents home, or if they had arrested both parents, to release one. But as of late last week, New Bedford school officials said the children of at least six arrested immigrants remained in the care of someone other than their parents, and many more were missing one parent. …

Turning Japanese?

So what ultimately has happened to these kids – and the hundreds, if not thousands, of others like them around the country? What happens when the temporary caretakers, for financial or other reasons, can no longer watch over the children — again, a number of them U.S. citizens?

Well, one source, whom we cannot name, has told Narco News that something is afoot that the U.S. government is keeping very tight-lipped about at this point.

That source says school officials in San Antonio, Texas, have been told to prepare for the arrival of a number of Spanish-only and limited-English speakers who will soon be shipped in from around the country to be warehoused, under a private contract, in San Antonio. The school system has been made aware of this because they will have to provide educational services to these children.

The source, who is in a position to know of such things, also says these are the children of immigrants who have been swept up in federal raids. Their parents are now either in federal detention somewhere in the country or already deported.

It is not clear at this time whether San Antonio will be the only holding area for these anti-immigrant “orphans,â€

OH HERE WE GO WITH THE "CHILD CARD" AGAIN. THE CHILDREN SHOULD GO WITH THEIR PARENTS.

WHEN WE DEPORT SOMEONE WHY DO WE KEEP THE CHILDREN HERE? LET THEM GO WITH THEIR PARENTS.

AND PARENTS WHO ARE DETAINED? WHERE DO THE CHILDREN GO? THE SAME PLACE AS THOSE CHILDREN OF PEOPLE WHO ARE CONVICTED OF CRIMES AND GO TO JAIL. THEY ARE SEPARATED FROM THEIR CHILDREN TOO. FUNNY...I DONT SEE ANY FLOOD OF TEARS OVER THEM.

Whatever....I don't care about the damned parasites' orphans.

This has been debunked as many times as the NY Times Polls as pure BS. Karen Immergut, US Attorney for the Pacific Northwest addressed this on Lars Larson a while back. There is NO seperation of children and parent(s). To my dismay, many are turned loose when kids are involved.

Tough!!! If the parents were so concerned they should not have had "anchor" babies.
They are very aware of the possibility of their being deported and should make arrangements for the children to be sent to Mexico to relatives if it should happen.

American Citizen who commit crime are seperated from their children every day...If you don't want this to happen don't break the law...it is so simple

Here's another solution. There are many, many people who want to adopt children and can't because there aren't enough available. The kids could be adopted if the parents don't want to take their children with them to Mexico.

Mayday,

I disagree. There are thousands of AMERICAN kids in the foster care system who are desperately looking for good homes. If there is any talk of adoption, it should be THEM, rather than anchor babies!!

Send the anchor babiees home with their parents!! The kids will eventually adapt!

TexasGal

The people are asked if they have children.....many lie, because they don't want the children deported. The reason a lot of this happened in Texas was because of the lying parents. It wasn't until after they were shipped out that people began calling and say they had children. NOBODY was detained, knowingly that had children that needed to be cared for. The parents are totally to blame....nobody else!

During her two years working in a garment factory alongside hundreds of other immigrants, there were few assurances in Marta Escoto's uncertain life. One of them was the promise she made to her children -- I will always take care of you.

I would imagine lots of American parents made the same promise to their kids and then broke the law to do so...no justification in that for them, none for the illegals. You play, you pay. Or, as my youngest son says, "you order sh$t, you eat sh$t."

The Massachusetts Department of Social Services dispatched two teams of 18 social workers to ask detainees in Texas how their children were being cared for.


And so, taxpayers paid for 36 people to ask 360 illegals, some of whom I'm sure didn't have children, how the kids are...they could only each manage to speak with 10 illegals? Was this a taxpayer paid vacation? Yeah, that's like the Ohio Department of Jobs and Services when they had a very important conference that they "just couldn't hold" anywhere but Las Vegas! The ones who went from our office came back talking about what a blast they had gambling.


But regardless of whether this particular lead turns out to be on the mark, every U.S. Senator in a position to now affect immigration reform has to ask themselves a hard question before they cast their vote: Where are the children being warehoused?

Actually, the only question that should be asked is "how is illegal immigration impacting American children?" An anchor is not an American...it's an anchor, a living, breathing insurance policy. And maybe they should ask how American children are faring when their parents are knocked out of good paying jobs to make room for cheap, illegal work.