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

[FreeState]

Source: NBC San Diego

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.

The 9-year-old and her 14-year-old brother, both passport-holding U.S. citizens, live in Tijuana and cross the border every day, usually in a car, to go to school in San Ysidro.

Thelma Galaxia said her friend, Michelle Cardenas, picked up her daughter Julia and her son Oscar for school Monday morning. Oscar attends San Ysidro High and Julia goes to Nicoloff Elementary School.
When they got in line at the border at 4 a.m. Monday morning, traffic was moving slow.

Cardenas told Julie and Oscar, and her two children, to walk across the border instead. She was going to call them an Uber so they could make it to school on time.

Read more: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/CBP-Detains-US-Citizen-9-Accuses-Her-of-Being-Someone-Else-507394941.html

[elleng]

1. :mad:

[SunSeeker]

2. WTF

They have US passports! On what grounds did CBP think she was "lying"?!?!

[ArizonaLib]

3. Brown skin

Hedonistic cruelty as a hobby. Remember how much fun some of the Nazis had being cruel to those being processed into the concentration camp system? How once in the camps, mothers would be in line for showers while the kids were rounded into trucks after being told they were leaving for field trips, etc? Same.

[sakabatou]

4. WTF?!

[sinkingfeeling]

5. This has to stop. America is sliding into fascism.

[lark]

7. I think we are being pushed and pulled into fascism.

PUtin is pushing drumpf to let out his evil America killing ire and drumpf is pulling us down into the deep mud with him because he wants to make us in his image so he will be worshipped more.

[ROB-ROX]

6. FIRE ALL THE BASTARDS WHO KIDNAPPED THE CHILDREN

They broke the law and the failed to do their job. All people in this organization who failed to protect a citizen should be in prison. Only when the herd is taken care of legally will just be done. This case should be in the regular news!!! Damn biased racists PIGS.....My grand parents were born in Mexico, but I sure do not look Mexican (I have a grandfather who was born in Wales.) I do have cousins who look (brown skin) and have been STOPPED at the border. My cousin verbally beat up the border guards and was allowed into the USA without delay. Organizations fail the public by NOT training their members PROPERLY or having GOOD procedures......I would think their may be thousands of citizens who live south of the border for financial reasons and the border guards know this and they still screw with people crossing the border with DELAYS or other criminal tactics.

[lagomorph777]

11. Arrest Nielsen immediately! Send her to the Hague!

[alwaysinasnit]

14. Maybe we should put her into one of those cages they put the kids into while waiting to be sent

to the Hague.

[lagomorph777]

15. Yes.

And no rush to expedite shipment. Maybe a couple of months in an un-air-condiditoned tent will soften her up this summer.

[alwaysinasnit]

16. Good idea except she might melt, especially if they throw water on her.

[lagomorph777]

17. Whatta world! Whatta world!

[alwaysinasnit]

18. How very Mel Brooks-ian!

[Honeycombe8]

8. It's legal to go to public school in the U S, when you live in a foreign country?

It's legal to go to public school in the U S, when you live in a foreign country? I've never heard of that. But living in a foreign country means you're not paying school taxes. Maybe it's legal, but I've never heard of that. I thought that not only do you have to live in the country, but yu have to live in the school district. Many Americans use relative's addresses, so their kids can go to certain public schools. I've known people who have done that, from decades ago to now.

[FreeState]

10. Yep

Lots of people on the boarder do it. It much cheaper to live in Mexico and work in the US as well.

We have a school next to our house that has close to 800 students, not one student lives in our neighborhood. The school is a private and ran out of a different city - our city literally gets no tax dollars from them but yet we pay for the roads, police etc.

[Honeycombe8]

19. Who pays the taxes for the school?

Just because people do it doesn't mean it's legal. Like I said, I've known quite a few people who use relative's addresses, so they can go to the school in that district. Because it's illegal to live out of the district and go to the school. Maybe it varies by state?

Recently in the news, a woman was jailed for using a false address to send her kid to a school out of her area.

Maybe it varies by state. I don't think it's legal to live out of the district in Texas and Louisiana, the two states I've lived in. Because the school taxes go to pay for the schools in the district you live in. Maybe other states do it differently.

[FreeState]

20. It's a catholic school so there are no taxes paid n/t

[haele]

13. As with many children stay who with grandparents during the week to go to school.

Grandparents are paying the district taxes, and in some areas, the school nearest a grandparent or other relative is near a better school than the one the parents are living near. Or the parent(s) are working long hours and the grandparent becomes the guardian during the school week because there's no money for daycare between 5 am and 7 pm.

Or the parents are divorced/separated for some reason and father is living in the U.S as a citizen, and this is the normal Monday - Friday turn-over.
Mom might be living miles away from Dad for any number of reasons, and has the kids visiting a lot, but the father is considered custodial, so the kids go to the school district where he lives.
These are the sorts of guardian/custodial/parent location situations that a school district has to consider in normal situations. And some districts have handshake agreements that allow kids to go to schools in other districts depending on the needs of the kids or available resources.

The only difference here is that San Ysidro/Tijuana are international border towns instead of suburban sprawl around a city hub.
And the kids were Hispanic-American.

Haele

[PatSeg]

9. I'm so tired of being shocked and outraged

on a daily basis. This is insane.

[Juneboarder]

12. The sad thing was all the comments.

I know better than to read comments, but it's slightly interesting to see what people have to say. There sure is a lot of hate out there from the right side, unfortunately.