Remember the MVM offices in Phoenix that were holding children who were taken from their parents at the border? One child named Wilson, who was just 6 years old when he spent two nights there, shared his startling recollection with me:https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/when-they-took-my-son/ …
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We always assumed Border Patrol was physically separating families. The idea was bolstered for me when we obtained remarks from ICE's principal legal advisor in June saying they weren't separating, only transporting. Well, it turns out in many instances, MVM was taking children.
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How do we know this? For starters, I showed Wilson a set of photos I’d gathered of MVM workers. He only recognized some. One photo he recognized right away was of the man who took him from his mamá. He even drew out being transported by him by van to the MVM office.pic.twitter.com/DShnS8QpXf
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Wilson's mom, Maria Antonia (she goes by Tonita), also recognized the man in the photo as the one who took her son away. His name is Demetrio Reyes and he works for MVM. I found he'd handwritten and signed his name on government documents I obtained:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4887714-DHS-MVM-manifest.html …
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Say what you want about government-contracted detention centers and shelters. But at least there's a record that people were there. There are rules. There are protocols. Broken, but there. Holding people, but six-year-old especially, in secret offices is, at best, troubling.
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Wilson was eventually taken to a government-sanctioned shelter. It would take 3 weeks before he was allowed to talk to his mamá. He spent his 7th birthday without her. He would pray for her in silence in his bed, covering himself and asking God for her to be strong.pic.twitter.com/ZCVBXdpRJX
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Replying to @aurabogado @bannerite
art therapist interpretation? Fleeing his detention....he is the purple color leaving the house of detention....
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