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My 5 year old with the fractured skull “in jail” (as he says) at Dilley Tonight at 11:30 someone walks into their room in detention with a white trash bag: “put the stuff you don’t want in here”, the guy says “You’re leaving” “Where are we going?””Don’t ask questions” 1/
Mom calls her sister and the sister calls me She is weeping. I call the attorneys. I knew that they would try to deport this little child with the broken head on the first plane they could In the dead of night. When all horror happens 2/
Mom calls her sister again. She has been told that she can’t use the phone or call her family any more. She’s doing it in secret “You’re leaving” “But I need to know where I’m going so I can dress my children properly” “You’re going to another state” 3/
This, of course, is a lie. Like many before it: “You’re just going to court. Your child will be here when you get back”, or “You’re just going to the showers. Here, take some soap.” They’re all the same, these evil lies. And mothers always, always know. 4/
This mother pack, obediently, weeping. Her child with the broken head is crying. She’ worries this will make his headaches worse. They take them. They will load them on to the very first plane, at 3 AM. “I’m never going to see beautiful nana [his aunt] again” 5/
Weeping in rage and defeat, I think: We must arrange for someone to meet them in Guatemala. Someone must be at the airport. I call a friend, who answers, at 1:30 AM. And begins to strategize with me. Then the text comes: STAY GRANTED 6/
HOW?? Because of a brave mother Who called her sister Who called me Who called the attorneys Who called the 9th circuit and said: IT MUST HAPPEN NOW. But were they safe? Was it too late? Had they taken them? Could we get them back? No one on this team gives up. 7/
I will tell you the end
But it is only the end for tonight.
Calling, fighting, We got them back.
They’d been taken to the airport. The small boy with the broken head wept and said his head hurt.
But we got them back.
For now, just for now, they are safe.
@EveryLastOne1
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