xHeart wrenching cries for help in Laredo MPP tent courts today. 16 yo girl and 12 yo boy crying, begging judge not to return them w/dad to Mexico where they were kidnapped after the last hearing in Sept (as seen by my colleague & Yale Law fellow @becky_gendelman from San Antonio)
— Kennji Kizuka (@KennjiKizuka) November 6, 2019
xThe twelve-year-old boy asked the judge not to return the family to Nuevo Laredo, one of the most dangerous areas of the border. He said to the judge: “May I say some words?†“I hope you can help us, please, I don’t want to return to Mexico. We run a lot of risk.â€Â
— Kennji Kizuka (@KennjiKizuka) November 6, 2019
The Trump Admin’s so called Migrant Protection Protocols are nothing more than an assembly line for kidnapping, extortion, assault & worse as asylum seekers & migrants are virtually delivered into the hands of criminals - in this case immediately after US immigration court.
— Kennji Kizuka (@KennjiKizuka) November 6, 2019
These are children being tried in a tent on the border in front of a judge on a TV screen. I think Jean Luc Picard in the TNG episode The Drumhead about summed up what we are seeing here.
PICARD: Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum on the battlefield sit at it and dispense summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishments severe, appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed.
A drumhead for children is new. . .