“We’ve had some very difficult conversations with parents this week, where the parent is ultimately saying, as much as they’d like to be with the child and as heartbreaking as it is, it’s too dangerous for the child to come back,” Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, told a San Diego federal judge Friday.
The decisions underscore something government officials have long argued: that migrant families from Mexico and Central America who cross illegally into the U.S. do so largely to get their children across. Having the children flown back to their home countries — where many say they are fleeing gang violence — would seem counterproductive to the parents, even if it results in long-term separation.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-deported-parents-20180907-story.htmlI guess some Democrats need to go down south of the border and harangue these parents about the horrors of being separated from their own children.
