The Michigan Department of Civil Rights has issued a statement saying infants, at least one being as young as three months old, have been transported to Michigan from the border for disappearance ...er ...care.
In response to this situation, Agustin V. Arbulu, Executive Director of Michigan Department of Civil Rights released the following statement:
“While the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, along with people all over the nation, decry the forced separation of children from their parents taking place on our southern border, the policy is a federal issue and beyond the scope of this department’s responsibilities under law. But for those children who have been separated from their parents and brought to Michigan, the Department of Civil Rights has a duty to make sure their civil rights are protected.”
“This week, I have been in touch with various agencies and organizations working with these vulnerable children. We have received reports and are very concerned that the children arriving here are much younger than those who have been transported here in the past. Some of the children are infants as young as three months of age and are completely unable to advocate for themselves. While we commend the work of resettlement agencies in Michigan attempting to serve these children with dignity and compassion, nothing can replace the love, sense of security and care of a parent.”
“I take very seriously our responsibility under state law to see to it that the civil rights of every person in this state, especially these vulnerable children in crisis, are protected. We will continue to monitor this situation closely to ensure the rights of these children are protected to the fullest extent.”
Three months old! This is insanity!
Meanwhile The Valley Morning Star reports (D) Rep Joaquin Castro and Rep. Ben Ray Luján have located girls and one nine month old infant at Southwest Key Programs’ Casa Padre and Casa Presidente facilities in Brownsville.
Seeing the 9-month-old and 1-year-old infants without their parents struck a nerve with Castro as well as Luján.
“This is not the steel cages that we’ve seen in the processing centers, the conditions are Spartan,” Castro said, referring to Border Patrol processing centers in McAllen where undocumented immigrants have been held in large cages, which were built during the 2014 surge. “There was an infant room at Casa Presidente where infants were being taken care of by staff. Two of those were a 9-month-old named Roger and a 1-year-old girl whose name is Lea, who were separated from their family members.”
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“In advocating and putting into place this policy, the president has taken us down a road where we are losing our humanity,’ Castro said. “The president has the power to end this process, but I agree, if he continues it, he should come and see these children for himself if he’s going to continue with this policy.”
Good luck with that, Joaquin, drumpf is not gonna be photographed any where near these babies.