10 year old US citizen receiving treatment for brain cancer arrested with undocumented parents and removed to Mexico
10 year old US citizen receiving treatment for brain cancer arrested with undocumented parents and removed to Mexico
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
This is horrific.. What if the hospital she was at was the only one with the technology to competently treat her condition.
Would be severely fucked up for the family to lose their daughter, in addition to being deported. Hopefully Claudia Shinebaum is able to facilitate medical care for this poor girl.
People asking if this is legal are missing the point. This is wrong, what is legal is whatever the executive decides, ICE can only be solved with constitunially supported extra judicial action.
mmm im just gonna stay quiet cause otherwise i'll say something about certain ppl in power that certain ppl won't like.
The “just following orders” stage
If I were to carry out this order, I would refuse. Who cares whether she's "legal" or not - deporting a sick child is simply inhumane. Those goddam monsters!
But yes, that's quite right. The reign of terror in Hitler's Third Reich was also only possible with those who carried out orders and clung to the idea that they were not responsible. Hannah Arendt described all this very well in "The Banality of Evil".
Reading this now, and it strikes me as all the things I should have been taught about the Nazis beyond just the enormity of their cruelty:
Most important of all, how often just a little pushback stopped them stupid.
A student strike in German-occupied Belgium was enough pushback to stop the enforcement of the extradition of Jewish people there.
Italy, an ally at the beginning, would just say they would extradite their Jewish population, then not actually do it, in a loop, leaving the Germans frustrated simply by being lied to to their face and incapable of making progress.
You're left with a picture of a bunch of bureaucrats following orders who are incapable of comprehending disobedience nor knowing how to handle it.
at this point we should be made aware of the names of the humans causing this human suffering. name those who are 'just following orders' so they can be charged at a later date when the deaths happen.
Screw that? Forcibly remove the dictator. It won't stop. Naming and shaming does nothing when there's no rules.
Failing to name these people and keep track of who carried out the dictator's orders will make it more difficult to hold them legally accountable once the dictator is removed and we have rules again. It's far from sufficient, but it is necessary.
When Musk is reposting comments saying Hitler didn't kill the people, the public servants did, every ICE member should know their head may be responsible for these actions. The people knowing their names and reminding them of it might actually get them to stop and think about their actions
Hitler found a bullet. His orderlies found the gallows.
Been asking that since they started removing people from their offices. Why are media outlets not getting the names of every single agent "just doing their job" they're just complacently watching like it's a fucking TV drama.
The media is almost wholly owned by the same people responsible for the policy setting. The people are propagandized into acceptance and complacency. Even the "left" in this country is in fact made up of capitalist apologists and collaborators. They installed "compatible leftists" into universities wholesale in the 60s and it hasn't changed. Milquetoast criticism of the most egregious harm is all you can ever expect. I have no idea how to overcome 80 or so years of brainwashing the populace. I am glad I never had kids.
The cruelty is the point.
As per standard procedure. There will always be pople who will try to paint this as some kind of failure of the system. No, this is the system.
They have made clear that US citizenship does not protect you from deportation. It couldn't be more obvious that no one is safe from these fascists. So fight on behalf of those who are being persecuted (immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, women) because they're just the current front line of the battle against forces that are coming for you sooner or later.
I'm curious how deporting a legal citizen even works. Is there an exception for minors?
From the article, the family was driving from Rio Grande (in Texas) to Houston (also Texas) for her treatment, going through an immigration checkpoint, as they have done in the past but this time the entire family was detained and deported on the spot.
Generally people with family who have citizenship and noncriminals are all exceptions, they used to be called undocumented instead of illegals because even undocumented workers pay taxes in the USA. Not anymore, now anybody and everybody is at risk of deportation. They're even discussing removal of citizenship from whoever they like, as they attempted in Trump's last term.
It is worth noting that because of this policy the ICE is actually less effective at catching actual criminals.
They're called "undocumented" because it is not a criminal offense to enter the country, but a civil one. Some also use "unauthorized" which is probably a little more accurate.
They deported the parents. Would you leave a sick children under the custody of a state who thinks you're sub-human due to your skin color? They had no choice but to bring the kid back with them to Mexico.
You end up in a "detention center". Usually privately owned.
I know it makes no difference really, but is that legal? Could doctors not intervene? Could ICE be liable for death or injury incurred from deporting a citizen?
I mean, there were trials in Nuremberg eventually.
If there was functioning legal system in the US, they could.
It functions. That's part of the issue. It's mostly there to protect the rich and fuck the poor and minorities.
Asking those questions about Nazi-era German deportation/detention policy would yield the same answers.
Even prior to the current political climate, police overreach in hospitals has happened multiple times. Usually involves police arresting a nurse/doctor for not doing what the police want (even if the medical staff are in the right). Medical staff loses pay for the day, patient harm does happen because of involuntary abandonment, and no punishment is metered for the police.
So yeah, doctors and nurses are quite helpless here.
Could ICE be liable for death or injury incurred from deporting a citizen?
Yes, but only if the court will uphold the law. And at that point, the punitive measures can't bring back life or brain function.
Was she hospitalized? Not a lot the doctors can do if she was at home.
Stay classy 'murica!
I vote, that, if we ever overpower these Nazis, we remove all their dicks, and deport them to Afghanistan.
The women Nazi supporters can go to Afghanistan too. But they don't need to be mutilated, just sterilized.
Because I'm like 100% certain the Taliban can come up with better punishments that they deserve
Okay. Don't conflate this with me supporting ICE or the fascio-authoritarian state.....BUT, lots of wealthy Americans are traveling to Mexico for healthcare because it's cheaper, faster, and in some cases just flat out better. I hope this is the case for the kid. If it is, she may have hit the lottery when she needed it most. They get a free ticket out of the US, potentially better healthcare, and maybe a shit load of money for the government ignoring her rights.
Read the article. They're getting jack shit.
Wealthy Americans pay out of pocket for top notch care in foreign countries. The ordinary person / family would not be able to afford that.
The wealthiest Americans fuck around with alternative medicine after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and then pay bribes to jump the transplant list domestically.
