Published on Wednesday, May 03, 2017 by Common Dreams
‘The gangs will target this mother and her child the moment they land in Honduras, yet Trump admin insists on this cruel policy’
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Central American migrants await transport to U.S. Border Patrol facility after crossing Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas. (Photo: Getty)
Offering a stark example of the dreadful personal toll President Donald Trump’s immigration policies are taking on vulnerable families, centrist Democrat Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania on Wednesday took to Twitter to live-tweet the deportation of a mother and her young son to Honduras.
The dramatic series of tweets specifically highlighted how the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown impacts Central American refugees, many of whom are fleeing gang violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
“Twitter: it’s urgent,” Casey wrote just after 11:00am on Wednesday. “I just found out that a young child & her mother who came to U.S. seeking refuge will be sent back to Honduras today.”
To read the rest of this story and see the Senator’s tweets, go to https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/03/senators-tweetstorm-shows-stark-human-toll-trump-immigration-crackdown
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