Father and teen daughter weep.over her treatment in border detention

[Demovictory9]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.desertsun.com/amp/1740988001

The same day U.S. officials released them from Border Patrol custody and sent them to Tijuana, Honduran migrant Jorman Armando Sánchez and his teenage daughter Seyly said they were going home.

In an interview at the migrant shelter at the Agape Misión Mundial church in Tijuana, Sánchez said he and his daughter left their home in the municipality of Villanueva, about 20 miles south of San Pedro Sula, because he couldn’t make a living harvesting corn and she couldn’t get a decent education. They crossed the U.S. border without authorization, were apprehended by Border Patrol and detained for nearly two weeks in Texas and California.

Sánchez sobbed as he recalled the shame and regret he experienced in detention.

In the crowded detention cells, Sánchez said, he shielded Seyly with a thin emergency blanket when she used the open toilet. When Seyly, who turned 13 in detention, got her period, agents gave her huge sanitary pads. She didn’t have access to showers or fresh clothing. The day officials released Seyly and her father, she wore a jacket tied around her waist to hide the bloodstains on her grey sweatpants

“I prefer to eat rice and beans in peace, with my children and my wife, over this tragedy,” Sánchez said. “For me, this was an enormous tragedy that will be difficult to get over.”

“In my 39 years, I’ve never experienced pain like this,” he said.

Two days after Sánchez and his daughter arrived at the shelter, they were gone.

[Danascot]

1. GOP:

Mission accomplished.

[KentuckyWoman]

2. I am mortified by the conditions at the concentration camps.

However, I am glad these 2 were kept together and kept only 2 weeks, long enough to deport.

This is not a man who brought his entire family north to survive. He brought a minor with him hoping to get in easier, for economics. He left his wife behind. If it were life and death, he would have gotten the whole family out of Villanueva. Thankfully, he has the option to take his daughter home and struggle through. A good many of the people in the camps will be dead if they go home.

The GOP says these type of migrant can kiss off. I say we need to do more to help combat terrible poverty all over the world - so people can live in dignity where they are. If we are going to solve the trouble at the border, then we need to address what is going on in their home cities.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. "He couldn't make a living harvesting corn and she couldn't get a decent education." Sounds exactly

like the kind of people this country could be really good at welcoming, helping and finding a place for. Instead we give them lifelong trauma. It's certainly what we're good at.