Border Patrol holds and threatens for 36 hours US children with passports

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

CBP Detains US Citizen, 9, Accuses Her of Lying About Identity, Mother Says

A mother and her 9-year-old daughter were separated for 36 hours after the child fell into U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody because agents at the border didn’t believe she was who she claimed to be, a mother says.

Galaxia says CBP officers accused her daughter of lying about her identity. Officers told the girl she didn’t look like the girl in her passport card picture.

Julia Medina told NBC 7 that CBP officers accused her of being someone else, her cousin Melanie. The children said officers also accused Oscar Medina of smuggling and other crimes which he said he didn’t understand.

“My daughter told her brother that the officer told her that if she admitted that she was her cousin, she would be released soon so she could see her mom,” Galaxia said.

“I was scared. I was sad because I didn't have my mom or my brother. I was completely by myself,” Julia Medina said. She said she woke up several times throughout the night, sad because she wasn’t with her family.

Galaxia said officers made Oscar Medina sign a document that said his little sister was his cousin.

[T'Chenka]

alaxia said officers made Oscar Medina sign a document that said his little sister was his cousin.

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More of this PATHETIC nonsense. It won't hold up in court, so why even bother? Children in these situations are almost always signing under duress and it's usually impossible to prove othetlrwise.

[Hammy]

alaxia said officers made Oscar Medina sign a document that said his little sister was his cousin.

More of this PATHETIC nonsense. It won't hold up in court, so why even bother? Children in these situations are almost always signing under duress and it's usually impossible to prove othetlrwise.

You've forgotten what country this is...

[Stranger in a strange land]

alaxia said officers made Oscar Medina sign a document that said his little sister was his cousin.

More of this PATHETIC nonsense. It won't hold up in court, so why even bother? Children in these situations are almost always signing under duress and it's usually impossible to prove othetlrwise.

You've forgotten what country this is...

Indeed, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for the current Supreme Court to rule in a 5-4 decision that unauthorized immigrants are sub-humans to whom the Constitution doesn't apply.

[GeorgiaModerate]

alaxia said officers made Oscar Medina sign a document that said his little sister was his cousin.

More of this PATHETIC nonsense. It won't hold up in court, so why even bother? Children in these situations are almost always signing under duress and it's usually impossible to prove othetlrwise.

You've forgotten what country this is...

Indeed, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for the current Supreme Court to rule in a 5-4 decision that unauthorized immigrants are sub-humans to whom the Constitution doesn't apply.

That's absurd.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Well 38-45% of this country aren't the ones being detained, so unfortunately, they won't care.

[Sestak]

So, no one who we think might be an illegal entrant is granted due process rights.

And anyone the government detains has no way to prove they aren’t an illegal entrant if stripped of due process rights.

How does no one see that this is a clear setup for ethnic cleansing?

[T'Chenka]

alaxia said officers made Oscar Medina sign a document that said his little sister was his cousin.

More of this PATHETIC nonsense. It won't hold up in court, so why even bother? Children in these situations are almost always signing under duress and it's usually impossible to prove othetlrwise.

You've forgotten what country this is...

Indeed, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for the current Supreme Court to rule in a 5-4 decision that unauthorized immigrants are sub-humans to whom the Constitution doesn't apply.

Sadly you are correct that it isn't a huge stretch.

My angle was "a child clearly doesn't understand what signing that paper means, and on those grounds it won't be a valid signed document in court."

[Badger]

alaxia said officers made Oscar Medina sign a document that said his little sister was his cousin.

More of this PATHETIC nonsense. It won't hold up in court, so why even bother? Children in these situations are almost always signing under duress and it's usually impossible to prove othetlrwise.

You've forgotten what country this is...

Indeed, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for the current Supreme Court to rule in a 5-4 decision that unauthorized immigrants are sub-humans to whom the Constitution doesn't apply.

That's absurd.

Hyperbole aside, they did Rule 5 to 4 just the other day that ice can detain an illegal immigrant in definitely. Yes, indefinitely. What country is this again?