Michigan Parents Being Deported Without Their 3 Young Children

Published October 13, 2009 @ 06:00AM PT

With the holiday season around the corner, the Department of Homeland Security is celebrating festivities by separating more children from their parents.

After the baby-napping incident where a woman posing as an ICE agent stole a baby from a Latino family, ICE decided that it did not want to be beaten at what it does best: terrorizing our homes and separating our families. So this week, our national security priority is to deport two parents to Bangladesh without their children.

Mus'ab (on the left) is only 5 years old and has a disease known as Hemophilia A; he needs special care and attention his whole life. He also has an older sister, Mariyam (7 years old) and a younger sister, Ameena (3 years old). Because of their ages, all three need constant parental supervision. With their parents deported to Bangladesh, Mus'ab, Mariyab and Ameena will become the responsibility of the United States government and a 'taxpayer burden.' That is probably what nativists desire, short of deporting the American citizen children, including Mus'ab, to Bangladesh so he can die without proper health care, while Mariyam and Ameena grow up as second-class citizens in a poor, war-torn, and ravaged society.

It may be too little, too late, as the parents are reportedly set to be deported today, but there is a demonstration rally planned in solidarity with the family today in Detroit, Michigan:

TIME: Tuesday Oct. 13 at 12 p.m.
LOCATION: 333 Mt. Elliot
(Corner of Mt. Elliot and Jefferson)
Federal Building
Detroit, MI

MEET PLACE: On Conant Ave. (Bangladesh Ave).
Corner of Conant Ave. and Eldridge St.
Hamtramck, MI- 48212
AT 11 a.m.

Update: The couple has been granted a one-week reprieve, which their attorney will use to buy more time so that the Board of Immigration Appeals can look at this case.
(Source: Chicago Tribune)

Other noteworthy deportation cases this week involve deporting the father of a Marine and a legal resident of the United States who received bad legal advice.

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That is probably what nativists desire, short of deporting the American citizen children, including Mus'ab, to Bangladesh so he can die without proper health care, while Mariyam and Ameena grow up as second-class citizens in a poor, war-torn, and ravaged society.

Nativist desire? Project much, do you?? As for the boy dying in Bangladesh... you are playing on empathy and sympathy, a losing combination, especially when Progressives are so wanting our health care system to be that of other nations.

http://www.whoban.org/health_system_bangladesh.html

As for the parents leaving the children behind, American Citizen or not, the children can be and should be given Indian Citizenship as applied from the parents through the Indian Consulate. The parents do hold the responsibility for their offspring.

Now, you can argue how the children will have better lives here instead of in India, but your arguments above don't hold water with reality.

Posted by Liquids Reign on 10/13/2009 @ 08:21AM PT
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Liquids right. The state of our healthcare, the kid will probably die if he stays in the US.

Posted by Wire Paladin on 11/04/2009 @ 06:54AM PT
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We should have no reponsibility for the children. They were created by the parents and should be with them. This is insane. If our government decided they needed to be deported then the kids need to be sent to India. I believe that if parents are criminals or their children are in gangs, then the entire family should lose their residency or citizenship. I have worked with people from near downtown L.A. and many of them are alcoholic,drugaddicted, and have ghetto mentalities. Their kids lie, are unmotivated in school and are joining gangs by the droves. It is time to protect our society from these lowlifes. By the way the families in East LA were as different as day from night in comparison to these recent immigrants. I live with two persons of Mexican anacestry so don't you dare accuse me of racism.

Posted by sheila ginsberg on 11/09/2009 @ 12:36PM PT
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