Children as young as 13 are ‘trapped’ in a state with no access to abortion, lawyers and advocates say
Donald Trump’s administration is concentrating all pregnant children being held in federal immigration enforcement custody into one group shelter in south Texas, a state where abortion is outlawed with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.
Since last summer, more than a dozen pregnant minors, some as young as 13 years old, have been moved to a facility in San Benito along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a joint investigation by The Texas Newsroom and The California Newsroom, citing sources within the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Department of Health and Human Services.
The agency is responsible for children who entered the United States without a parent or legal guardian or who were separated from their families by immigration authorities.
Babies born in a Texas concentration camp would technically be US citizens. Constitutional citizens.
I don’t imagine that’s going to work out in any kind of positive way, though, is it? Will CBP just ignore that, meaning that US citizens will literally be born into lawless captivity? Will they use their citizenship status as justification for separating babies and mothers? Forced adoptions?
The rules aren’t doing too much ruling these days.
Even a considered-opinion racist, even a loud “proud deplorable” right-wing extremist bigot, should be worried about this. Because among the many other problems with it, this is inevitably going to erode the meaning and protections of citizenship itself. It leans in the direction of making rights contingent on circumstances, of turning rights into privileges that the government can dole out at its discretion. Government of the mafia, by the mafia, and for the mafia, more or less.
They’ll just deport the babies with their mothers. They’ve deported dozens of US citizen infants. Why would they change tack now?
Remember when Charlie Kirk said “No one is American unless I decide they are”? This is the mindset we’re dealing with.
I remember when kirk said “gurgling blood spilling out of neck sounds”
I remember when he said something about gun violence then some mighty ironic karmic justice immediately ensued
And are any American citizens going to do anything to uphold their rights? Doesn’t seem like it. In fact, seems like most Americans are just going to let the fascists run their concentration camps and post thoughts and prayers on twitter.
For this administration the “exceptional circumstance.” Is “these girls got themselves pregnant on purpose to claim automatic citizenship.”
(As always the logic is complete and utter nonsense. Especially for the LITERAL CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO GIVE BIRTH.)