The picture purports to be children with US citizenship living in Mexico. If you believe the fake news, you believe this is new. This is nowhere near new.
For years I made money as an unofficial translator of Mexico family law used by law firms in federal court under The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. This law was created to force parents to return their children to the proper country to decide custody. The reality is it did not work in the most egregious cases, such as with Middle East countries.
But it did work with Mexico. As a Mexican citizen living in Mexico if you believe you had primary custody of your children before you allowed your spouse to take them to the US for summer vacation, upon application our State Department would file suit for you in federal court to have your children returned to Mexico, or any number of countries.
The issue of the child's citizenship was not a concern under the law. This is where I got involved. The State Department would hire local family law lawyers to argue the Mexican nationals' right to establish custody in Mexico. Their lawyers were really poorly trained and hired translators who produced gibberish for the federal judges. The judge had discretion to use my translation paid for by the US citizen parent. My translation read like a family law code.
The issue was simple; a dispute occurred between the parents as to the child's primary residence. When one parent was deported, you would be surprised how many parents allowed their children to live in Mexico with the deported parent.
There are an estimated 600,000 US citizen children in Mexico. They are there in most cases because a federal judge ruled the custody battle was to occur in Mexico which nearly always insured the child would live with the Mexican parent. I watched as US citizen children were turned over to the State Department for transport back to Mexico. This was all legal. They were not being deported. They were simply being returned to the parent with primary custody as determined by a federal judge.
SO WHY ARE THE FAKE LIBERALS NOW MAKING NOISE? - IF IT MAKES TRUMP LOOK BAD YELL IT TO THE HEAVENS
The Baker Institute has documented the plight of these legally transported children to Mexico. They are called invisible with very few rights in terms of education and healthcare.
The undocumented parents are being deported. Their US citizen children are not being deported. In many cases the parents are taking their children with them. If there is a US citizen parent who wants to fight for their child's return, they will have a voice in federal court under well-established law.
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