Trump admin deports 10-year-old U.S. citizen recovering from brain cancer to Mexico

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Source: MSNBC

A Texas family on their way to an emergency medical check-up for their 10-year-old daughter, who is recovering from brain cancer, was detained by immigration authorities and hastily deported to Mexico last month.

In early February, Customs and Border Protection stopped the family at an immigration checkpoint while they were traveling from Rio Grande, Texas, where they lived, to Houston, where their daughter’s specialists are located — a trip the family had made at least five other times before without incident, according to an attorney representing the family.

During their previous trips, the undocumented parents of the 10-year-old, who is a U.S. citizen, were allowed through the checkpoint after presenting authorities with letters from lawyers and their daughter’s doctors. This time, however, authorities deemed those letters insufficient and arrested the parents for not providing proper documentation. The family’s attorney said the parents have no criminal history.

Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/child-brain-cancer-deported-mexico-rcna196295

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The barbarity of the current administration knows no bounds.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Just Fucking Evil. JFE will be my shorthand going forward. I will use this acronym a lot, I think.

[progressoid]

2. He was obviously going to take our jobs!!11!!

[Old Crank]

3. These people make it hard

To separate christians from these vile acts.
I have very nice Christian friends but I'm thinking they are outliers and that they don't need the religion to be decent people.

[Skittles]

7. religion is not required to be a decent person

how about just doing the right thing without imagining some kind of reward in the end? Imagine that.

[Old Crank]

9. I try.

Someone I know said that I was the best Christian she knew. I'm an atheist.

[Skittles]

10. I hear that

[BlueKota]

12. Just because Magats call themselves Christians

doesn't mean they are in actually Christians. Think of it along the lines of tsf calling himself a "stable genius." I mean I can call myself a math genius, even though that's the furtherest thing from the truth.

[Old Crank]

13. True

but they sure do pollute the religion with their claims.
I don't care what, if any, religion people are as long as they treat others in a good manner.
But Republican Jesus people claim the moral high ground and treat anyone else like.....

[BlueKota]

15. The Republican "christians"

certainly have a different interpretation of what Christ's teachings were than what I was taught they were.

We were taught we were supposed to leave judgement up to God, help one another, not go to church just to be seen as being pious by our neighbors, that greed and hubris were sins. I am sticking to this interpretation and they can keep theirs.

[Wednesdays]

16. The hubris comes, in part, from the notion of being "saved."

That can lead to one thinking they're special and exceptional; that they've been chosen by God.

Indeed, a big part of conservative Protestant thinking comes from Calvin's doctrine of predestination. That God chose them to be "saved" before they were even born.

[BlueKota]

17. As a former Catholic I was taught

we were all born sinners, we had to repay Jesus by offering any of our own life's suffering up to him as a repayment of sorts for his own suffering on the cross, and to put our own needs secondary to serving others less fortunate. We were also told that we had to earn salvation and not assume it was a forgone conclusion.

I am not a practicing Catholic anymore because the church hierarchy often was doing far worse things than those they judged. I do believe, however, that my moral beliefs stem in part due to some of those teachings, my parents examples, and my education after grade school.

I do not relate in anyway to the TV evangelist faith the magats preach.

[ReRe]

4. None

Being a history junkie, each and every day now is pure misery. And you are correct, their barbarity knows no bounds.
When we survive from this, bigotry must be out-lawed.

[JoseBalow]

5. Reprehensible

Just awful

[Grins]

6. America!!!! Makes 'ya proud, no? NM

[colorado_ufo]

8. I feel so much safer now!

[MLWR]

11. Tell me again

how these miserable excuses for carriers of human DNA are such good "christians."

[spanone]

14. Sick Fuck.