White woman calls cops on black babysitter caring for two white kids | TheHill
Why was the woman not arrested for harassment, criminal threatening, etc?
Category: Modern Parenting,
The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights
Helen’s mother, Jeny, had migrated to Texas four years earlier, and Noehmi planned to seek legal refuge there.
…Noehmi said that the official told her, “Don’t make things too difficult,” and pulled Helen from her arms. “The girl will stay here,” he said, “and you’ll be deported.” Helen cried as he escorted her from the room and out of sight.
…The next day, authorities—likely from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (O.R.R.)—called to say that they were holding Helen at a shelter near Houston; according to Noehmi, they wouldn’t say exactly where.
…According to a long-standing legal precedent known as the Flores settlement, which established guidelines for keeping children in immigration detention, Helen had a right to a bond hearing before a judge; that hearing would have likely hastened her release from government custody and her return to her family. At the time of her apprehension, in fact, Helen checked a box on a line that read, “I do request an immigration judge,” asserting her legal right to have her custody reviewed. But, in early August, an unknown official handed Helen a legal document, a “Request for a Flores Bond Hearing,” which described a set of legal proceedings and rights that would have been difficult for Helen to comprehend. (“In a Flores bond hearing, an immigration judge reviews your case to determine whether you pose a danger to the community,” the document began.) On Helen’s form, which was filled out with assistance from officials, there is a checked 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.
Jeezus….
Deported parents may lose kids to adoption, investigation finds
It had been 10 weeks since Ramos had last held her 2-year-old, Alexa. Ten weeks since she was arrested crossing the border into Texas and U.S. immigration authorities seized her daughter and told her she would never see the girl again.
What followed — one foster family’s initially successful attempt to win full custody of Alexa — reveals what could happen to some of the infants, children and teens taken from their families at the border under a Trump administration policy earlier this year.
…An Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court documents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families — without notifying their parents.
And today, with hundreds of those mothers and fathers deported thousands of miles away, the risk has grown exponentially.
…Three days after their separation, court records show, the U.S. government labeled Alexa an “unaccompanied minor,” which meant she entered the bureaucracy for migrant youth, typically teens, who arrive in the U.S. alone. The toddler was issued a notice to appear on “a date to be set, at a time to be set, to show why you should not be removed from the United States.”
…It took 28 minutes for a judge in a rural courthouse near Lake Michigan to grant Alexa’s foster parents, Sherri and Kory Barr, temporary guardianship. Alexa’s mother and the little girl’s immigration attorney were not even notified about the proceedings.
…In Missouri, an American couple managed to permanently adopt a baby whose Guatemalan mother had been picked up in an immigration raid. That seven-year legal battle terminating the mother’s parental rights ended in 2014. In Nebraska, another Guatemalan mother prevailed and got her kids back, but it took five years and over $1 million in donated legal work.
Deported parents may lose kids to adoption, investigation finds
Jeezus…
Teaching consent, not segregation, is the answer
Sidestepping for the moment the most obvious flaws in that approach (same-gender abuse happens, too, and gender is more and more understood as fluid, not fixed), there is nothing about this approach that is healthy or productive. I might not have the answers to all of society’s woes, but I am quite certain that more fear, suspicion and gender-based disdain isn’t it.
…The answer to sexual assault isn’t gender segregation.
…Teaching consent starts early. Really early, and has very little obvious connection to a healthy sex life. Teaching consent starts with the basics. …You want to pet that sweet dog on the sidewalk? Well, first you must ask permission. You want that other child to play with you? Well, if they don’t want to, that’s just the way it is.
Mainewhile: Teaching consent, not segregation, is the answer – The Forecaster
Amen!
REPORT: Trump Administration Will Shift $260 Million From Cancer Research and HIV Prevention to Pay to House Immigrant Minors
Aaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Mom in court for taking phone from daughter, faces possible jail time
Mom in court for taking phone from daughter, faces possible jail time
Good lord! The arresting officers should be docked pay and confined to desk duty for not researching this better. ..And the father should face charges for making false statements that resulted in an innocent person’s arrest.
Not to mention the fact that a parent should have the ability to remove their minor child’s access to media items like TV and phone without fear of consequences in the freaking first place…
Abused immigrant children: allege mistreatment in detention center
Abused immigrant children: allege mistreatment in detention center
Anyone who was involved in carrying this out and anyone and everyone in charge of supervising them should be facing charges and jailtime.
Cop who Tased 11-year-old: ‘This is why there’s no grocery stores in the black community’
Cincinnati police Officer Kevin Brown was working an off-duty security job at the Kroger in Spring Grove Village when he stopped 11-year-old Donesha Gowdy and some friends outside the store.
…A review of the incident found that Brown violated policy, adding that he deployed his Taser without warning and expressed prejudice concerning race.
“Quite frankly, I believe the officer violated our policy. I believe the use of force was unnecessary in this particular circumstance,” Police Chief Elliott Isaac said.
Cop who Tased 11-year-old: ‘This is why there’s no grocery stores in the black community’
hmmmm
Texas School Beats ADHD by Tripling Recess Time
One Texas school has kindergartners and first graders sitting still and “incredibly attentive.”
What’s their secret? Their recess time has tripled.
…Their teachers say it’s totally transformed them.
The kids are less fidgety, less distracted, more engaged in learning and make more eye contact.
…The pilot program is modeled after the Finnish school system, whose students get some of the best scores in the world in reading, math and science.
Texas School Beats ADHD by Tripling Recess Time
hmmm
Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry
Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry | Time
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Cincinnati Police Officer Shoots 11-Year-Old Girl With Taser for Shoplifting
Cincinnati Police Officer Shoots 11-Year-Old Girl With Taser for Shoplifting
The officer’s reckless reaction was dangerously out of line with the context of the actual situation. Their badge needs to be surrendered immediately because their lack of judgement poses an imminent and immediate danger to the citizen’s they are there to protect and serve.
Trump administration tells ACLU to find deported parents
The Trump administration on Thursday informed a federal judge that it isn’t responsible for locating deported parents separated forcibly from their children at the southern border.
DOJ said in a court filing that the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over family separations, should instead take the lead in reunifying deported parents with their children.
via Trump administration tells ACLU to find deported parents – POLITICO
Gawd almighty… I can’t even.
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