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tenderfoot

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Tue Jul 16, 2019, 06:46 PM Jul 2019

Sophie's Choice, Trumpian Style: Toddler Allegedly Forced To Choose Which Parent To Stay With At...

... Migrant Center!

The child was reportedly scolded by a Border Patrol agent for crying when her father, who she didn’t pick, was taken away.

A Honduran couple has said a Border Patrol agent forced their 3-year-old daughter with a heart condition to choose which one of her parents would be allowed to stay with her in the U.S. and then scolded her when she began to cry.

The child was at a migrant holding facility in El Paso, Texas, with her parents and two older siblings, ages 6 and 9, when she was presented with the heavy question last week, according to NPR.

“And the girl, because she is more attached to me, she said, mom,” her mother, Tania, told NPR through an interpreter. “But when they started to take [my husband] away, the girl started to cry. The officer said, ‘You said [you want to go] with mom.’”

The girl’s father, Joseph, was separated from his family and told he’d have to go back to Juárez, Mexico, which borders El Paso, to await his immigration court hearing alone.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/toddler-forced-pick-parent-migrant-center_n_5d2dbf9de4b02fd71dda5e65

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Sophie's Choice, Trumpian Style: Toddler Allegedly Forced To Choose Which Parent To Stay With At... (Original Post) tenderfoot Jul 2019 OP
OMG! That is disgusting! Akacia Jul 2019 #1
A 3 yr. old with a heart condition.... Bayard Jul 2019 #2
My heart breaks for her and her family. nt. Akacia Jul 2019 #3
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