As Migrant Families Are Reunited, Some Children Don't Recognize Their Mothers

[DonViejo]

By Miriam Jordan, Katie Benner, Ron Nixon and Caitlin Dickerson
July 10, 2018

PHOENIX — One mother had waited four months to wrap her arms around her little boy. Another had waited three months to see her little girl again.

When the reunions finally happened Tuesday in Phoenix, the mothers were met with cries of rejection from their children.

“He didn’t recognize me,” said Mirce Alba Lopez, 31, of her 3-year-old son, Ederson, her eyes welling up with tears. “My joy turned temporarily to sadness.”

For Milka Pablo, 35, it was no different. Her 3-year-old daughter, Darly, screamed and tried to wiggle free from her mother’s embrace.

“I want Miss. I want Miss,” Darly cried, calling for the social worker at the shelter where she had been living since mother and daughter were separated by federal agents at the southwestern border.

The tearful reunions — ordered by a court in California — came as the government said that it would release hundreds of migrant families wearing ankle bracelet monitors into the United States, effectively returning to the “catch and release” policy that President Trump promised to eliminate.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/us/politics/trump-administration-catch-and-release-migrants.html

[Squinch]

1. The trauma of this time will always be there for them.

Terror and grief, experienced when very young, irrevocably shape brain development.

[SamKnause]

2. Evil mother fuckers !!!!!!!!!!!!

They have intentionally damaged these children for life.

I think back to my childhood.

I would never recover if I had been ripped away from my mother.

I rarely talked until the age of 5.

I clung to my mother's leg and followed her everywhere.

I sat next to her at the dinner table.

I would nudge her with my elbow and point to what I wanted on the table.

The mother fuckers responsible for this need to be in prison !!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck civility.

Fuck pretending this is normal.

Fuck trying to get along with these EVIL LYING FUCKERS !!!!!!!!

[bdamomma]

10. this is on us

and we have to rewrite the wrongs that were done to us.

What is going on those bases where they have these families or children being held as prisoners. WTF!!!

Crimes against humanity, an infinitive YES

[lpbk2713]

3. The Trump Regime has caused permanent damage to these families.

And not one of them gives a damn.

[lostnfound]

4. What a horror. Who knows what was done to them?

I believe the phrase is “operant conditioning”?
Nowadays there are drugs, too.
BFSkinner did some work for the government.

[Mc Mike]

11. The one lice covered infant hadn't been bathed in 85 days.

They're nazi swine, concentration camp employees.

[nolabear]

15. It doesn't even take that. Kids need so desperately to attach their brains alter.

Put a very young child in a desperately frightening situation and become the only source of stability, no matter how flawed, and the attachment gets very complicated. And though there are differences in children, the echoes last in one way or another forever.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. There needs to be lawsuits.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. May Pig's grandchildren be unable to recognize their parents, him,

and their step grandma when the family is released from prison.

[gademocrat7]

7. The chump cabal needs to be held accountable for this abuse.

[bronxiteforever]

8. Kick and recommend for visibility of this evil.

[MarianJack]

9. Concentration camps for brown children,...

...courtesy of Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller.

Fuck civility!

RESIST!

[malaise]

14. That simple

He's a monster
rec

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. This is America? FUCK YOU fRUMP

[Mc Mike]

13. They're too young, aren't properly making memories yet.

There's more than 102 of them.