Letter: Deported children?
The May 4 edition of the Vail Daily featured a half-page cartoon showing three children in a cell built in an Uncle Sam top hat. There was a note – THREE AMERICAN CHILDREN DEPORTED.
The case involves women who were deported to Honduras. Their small children went with them. It is not clear what the story is about the kids’ fathers.
The Trump Administration’s response is as follows: Only the mothers were deported. There were no proceedings to deport the kids — they are United States citizens.
The mothers had the choice to leave the kids with family or friends in the United States, or to take the kids with them. They chose to take them. The ACLU claims that one mother has resided in the United States for years and has roots in the community. Other news reports mention relatives who are in the United States legally, and are willing to take the kids. So there might have been a way to leave the kids here safely, if the moms wanted to go that way. Their call.
Attorneys for the women claim that they were not given sufficient time or access to advisors to decide whether to take their kids with them or leave the kids in the United States. Immigration officials deny this.
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It is unclear whether these women want to return their kids to the United Sates or whether the government would resist any such efforts.
I watched an NBC reporter interviewing Secretary of State Marco Rubio about this matter. She kept talking about how the kids were being deported, despite his point that they weren’t deported, for the reasons stated above. The NBC person did not deal with Rubio’s point; she just kept on with the party line. Typical for the mainstream media.
Terry Quinn
Eagle
