"...there is a check box next to a line that says, 'I withdraw my previous request for a Flores bond hearing.' Beneath that line, the five-year-old signed her name in wobbly letters."
What the Trump administration is doing to these thousands of children is shocking. We have to stop it.
Here's an excerpt from a New Yorker feature on Helen, "a smart, cheerful five-year-old girl" seeking asylum from Honduras. She ends up in court, separated from her parents. The organization helping her is lupenet.org, and you should support their work.
They managed to get Helen reunited with her mother, and out of Trump's brown kid prisons. But here's what happened to her:
Read the restIn July, Helen fled Honduras with her grandmother, Noehmi, and several other relatives; gangs had threatened Noehmi's teen-age son, Christian, and the family no longer felt safe. Helen's mother, Jeny, had migrated to Texas four years earlier, and Noehmi planned to seek legal refuge there. With Noehmi's help, Helen travelled thousands of miles, sometimes on foot, and frequently fell behind the group. While crossing the Rio Grande in the journey's final stretch, Helen slipped from their raft and risked drowning. Her grandmother grabbed her hand and cried, "Hang on, Helen!" When the family reached the scrubland of southern Texas, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended them and moved them through a series of detention centers. A month earlier, the Trump Administration had announced, amid public outcry over its systemic separation of migrant families at the border, that it would halt the practice.
