Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn’t know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month.

When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.

His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why would missing one appointment even be grounds for deportation for anyone in the first place? Let alone deporting their daughter several years later and after she is married to another citizen. She has multiple valid claims to citizenship and it’s blatantly obvious. But someone saw a rule that was broken so there must be punishment I guess

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Because the goal is to remove brown people, and immigration status is an easy way to start doing that. They will move on to a more Permanent Solution as time goes on.