Done. Rick, what a great find that dashboard is! R1
Thanks Rick!!!
I'm at work now and this must be a quick post - more later, but apparently they are now denying bond.
Furious does not begin to touch my state of mind on this. ( Breathe, breathe, breathe)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/ice-family-separation-bond-denial-1/
Luminata, I believe whoever is responsible can be held in contempt of court. The wheels of justice still grind on, however slowly. R1
I've been in the local detention center based courtroom, more than once. Bond is 100% at the discretion of the judge in the room at the time. Bond amounts have gone up a lot lately. Sometimes acceptance of bond is also contingent upon wearing ankle monitors upon release. Also, 90% of people bonded out have to have a "sponsor" in the courtroom who agrees to provide shelter, accept financial responsibility and to pay the bond in the first place. There are no bail bondsmen for immigration courts. A close friend of mine is out $15,000 because 2 people she bonded out have absconded and cut off their ankle monitors. (An example of the bad apples spoiling the barrel for everyone else.)
Thanks for this R1. I've come across it and found it confusing. It's spreading on social media!
I'm reading a book called "The Baby Farmers" by Annie Cossins. It's a true crime story about murdered children in Australia in the 1800's. I'm sharing this because one of the first chapters talks about children being taken from their convict mothers the minute they arrive in Australia. The children were placed in orphanages and that was that. Over 150 years ago. I have never heard about this. It's unbearable to see how little things have changed.
The US has its own legacy of displacing, removing, and abusing children. There were the orphan trains that took children from Eastern cities and dumped them into the hands of whites in the West. For more than a hundred years, Indian children were forcibly removed from their families and placed in boarding schools designed to assimilate them to white culture. There are many books and sites describing the abuse suffered by these children. Most Native sites describe the cycle of intergenerational trauma created by forced removal and assimilation that still work to corrode Native families and culture and kill Native youth. It doesn't take long to destroy a child. Yesterday's report of the return of a lice-covered 14-month old immigrant child to his mother after 85 days without a bath curdles everything inside me. I already wrote my congressman AGAIN. Please join me in praying for this child. I go from feeling helpless and enraged about this situation to just holding the children long and lovingly in prayer.
Holding, holding, holding.
Thank you all there is and ever will be for giving this child the endurance to maintain, survive, and find her way back to the mother inspite of challenging conditions, pain, and heartache.
May she carry the knowledge of strength and power always within herself and remember the goodness, kindness, and love of a mother's heart and caring arms now and forever.
May she live a long and fruitful life where all she remembers and carries within her only make her and the roots of her family tree stronger and able to endure more, understand more, grow more into their power and may all who know her, knew her, or remember her carry their own strong and fruitful seeds of strength and endurance strengthened and growing into light bearers and warriors, themselves.
Going through my sister's papers, I found a piece on the orphan trains. One boy told of getting off the train with others, and everybody was picked but him, they found an older couple to take him for the day only. He wanted to stay forever. They said no, but at the last minute, they took him. He said he knew some of the kids weren't treated well, but he had a wonderful life, so not all orphans were abused, and it took them away from life in the city where many of them were still orphans, hungry and maybe abused.