{"id":3827,"date":"2007-11-06T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/06\/us-to-unauthorized-migrants-do-not-report-it-when-your-child-is-kidnapped-and-raped-or-well-deport-you\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T17:29:54","slug":"us-to-unauthorized-migrants-do-not-report-it-when-your-child-is-kidnapped-and-raped-or-well-deport-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3827","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Unauthorized Migrants: "Do Not Report It When Your Child Is Kidnapped And Raped, Or We'll Deport Your Kid And Maybe You""},"content":{"rendered":"

From the International Herald Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A female teacher and a 13-year-old student planned some sort of life together in Mexico after fleeing Nebraska together, but they were tripped up by a lack of cash, the Baja California policeman who detained the pair said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Kelsey Peterson, a 25-year-old sixth-grade math teacher and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School, was detained Friday in the border city of Mexicali.<\/p>\n

She was turned over to the FBI early Saturday and remains in custody. The boy, ________, is staying with relatives in Mexicali.<\/p>\n

As an undocumented migrant, ________ apparently will not be allowed to return to the United States. But police here have told him to stay in touch in case he is needed to testify in any possible criminal case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via \u00a1Para Justicia y Libertad!<\/a>, who also points out that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is refusing to say if they’re planning to deport the victim’s parents or not.<\/p>\n

So when the next unauthorized migrant gets raped or kidnapped, the parents now have a very powerful reason to try and resolve the situation themselves, rather than report it to police. Lovely.<\/p>\n

Tiny Cat Pants<\/a>, in a post entitled “How Nice For Child Molesters,” gets at why this story is so horrifying:<\/p>\n

Great. Let\u2019s just have a whole underclass of people with no legal standing and no legal recourse and let\u2019s just let every corrupt corporation and evil jackass prey on them while we all sit back and wring our hands about whether they don\u2019t deserve it just a tiny bit because they or their parents came here illegally.<\/p>\n

That will be good fun and totally moral!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more discussion of this, see posts by Brownifemipower <\/a>and Anxious Black Woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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