I'm sure this happened with other Administrations, but this is such a drastic injustice that it needs to be screamed to the top of the heavens

Just what in the fuck has this country become, and how in the hell does ANYONE justify deporting a 2nd Grader-but without his parents?

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Seized With Heavy Hand at Border, for Paperwork Errors

One is a second grader in Manhattan. Over the protests of his American mother, immigration officials have been trying to deport him ever since he returned from a brief visit to his native Canada without the right visa....."I'm desperate," Emily Arroyo, the mother of the second grader, said last week, after prosecutors refused an immigration judge's suggestion that they drop the two-year-old deportation case against her son, José Arroyo Rodas. Instead, they demanded that she buy him a one-way ticket to Canada by next week....."I'm American — they're making me leave my country, too, because of course I'm not going to let him go alone," said Ms. Arroyo, a hairstylist raised in Guatemala, who calculates that she has spent $10,000 in legal fees trying in vain to fix José's paperwork problem. But on Wednesday, hours after this reporter asked United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Washington for comment about the case, an agency spokesman, Marc Raimondi, said that prosecutors reviewing the matter had found that it met the guidelines for prosecutorial discretion. "A dismissal recommendation to the immigration judge is planned," he said

Lovely, just so Goddamned fucking lovely, and I love the weaselly nature of that last sentence-If a dismissal recommendation is warranted and planned, why hasn't it been done before the reporter called?

Did the ICE NOT know the details in Arroyo Rodas' case until the reporter called up?

Lovely, just lovely that someone thinks this child is such a threat to the US that they require deportation

What was the kid's sin, coloring outside the lines, drawing stick figures with happy faces, spilling his milk at lunch?

Unfortunately, it appears only the Prosecutor can bring this hellish nightmare to an end-but that hasn't happened yet

In José Rodas's case, prosecutorial discretion may be the only way to cut through a tangle of law and circumstance — and as of last night, the boy's lawyer, Irwin Berowitz, said he had received no word of the government's change of heart. José cannot automatically derive American citizenship from his mother because she was reared in Guatemala, and his absent father is not American.....A petition to set the boy on the road to United States citizenship has been approved, but obstacles include a two-year processing backlog, his lawyer said. And as long as prosecutors remain opposed, an immigration judge has no authority to dismiss his deportation case.....At one hearing, Ms. Arroyo said, the judge had to take a break to regain her composure after she and José both started crying. "He kept saying," Ms. Arroyo recalled, " 'Mommy, I don't want to leave.' "

No excuses or caterwauling that tries to spin this in a positive way should be tolerated in the least, for God's sake, this is a real child, and how the Prosecutors haven't signed off on fixing their fiasco says far more about the threat they pose to families than almost anyone else they could condemn

When did this country go from being "The land of the free and the home of the brave" to "land of the scared and home of the eternally suspicious enough to see evil in a 2nd Grader"?

Do the fucking right thing already ICE, and stop this more stupid than usual situation over a 2nd grader.

Oh yeah, there are other more humiliating examples listed in the story, but this one really stood out for it's absoulte inanity