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To the woman who wrote an email saying I am Hitler for "ripping babies out of their mothers arms", the ones who threatened my daughters, the news media that lies and manipulates and conflates, and especially the one who accused me (I have no say in it by the way) of labeling people at the border to be traffickers just so we can take their kids.
Please find me one instance where we've taken a child from his or her parents, *and* referred to the parent as a trafficker, without that parent actually being a trafficker of that child, usually for sex.
There are eleven open cases on my desktop this week. Eleven irreparably damaged children I'm supposed to somehow reach. The youngest child in those files is a four year old girl. Her womb is destroyed because of what the men her "mother" sold her to did to her.
Her MOTHER didn't make the trip here. She's back home in her own country probably enjoying the novelty of having food on her table every night for the children she hasn't sold yet. But that money will run out and then the next child in that family is in peril when it does. At least that's usually how it works. It could also be that this girl is beloved by a family back home that we will likely never find, abducted and sold by some random opportunist.
That little girl is beyond my skill to reach. She will be passed along to the full psychiatric staff while we try to get some kind of identity for her...find some link to anyone or anything in the world. Contrary to Hollywood Dogma, there is no grand database of citizenry for us to consult.
We assume she's Guatamalan because her traffickers and the rest of the group were. But we could be wrong. If she doesn't speak and cannot give us any information, we may NEVER really know. Most of these village children have no birth records, no data of any kind to link them even to a nation of origin.
Many of the ones we get this young do not KNOW their parents names. Mama and Papi. They won't know what nation they are from or even the name of the village they were born in. But sure...we're evil for taking her away from the people we found her with.
This child doesn't look anyone in the eye. She doesn't speak, she is practically catatonic. She's four. Her mind is so traumatized she's insentient and her body is beyond repair and she's four years old. And she's one of eleven such cases on my desk.This week. And this isn't an unusual week. But WE'RE evil for assuming the people these children "travel" with aren't safe.
Maybe there are loving families coming here and getting separated, but I don't see those. My cases usually have no legitimate parents with them. They were mostly brought here by ABSOLUTE strangers who in the BEST cases, deliver these poor kids to illegal relatives waiting to get them. And sadly more often than not, those kids are NOT safe in the hands of their criminal relatives...and those kids STILL end up in situations like the 11 cases on my desk this week. The people who CARE about their kids don't use the networks we get our cases from, not on purpose.
I'm not a cop or a border patrol officer or a soldier or a first responder or a doctor or a politician. I'm just a counselor and chaplain. I'm a husband and a father of three daughters who tries be a good man and a decent person. I know I'm a sinner in need of God's mercy, but I admit I wouldn't have considered myself to be evil.
And now, because I help those who pull these poor kids out from under the animals who abuse and exploit them, I find myself facing threats for my daughters to be treated pretty much the way these children I was helping were treated.
and the people making these threats aren't the pedophile rings we break up or gang members we capture, but the "social justice warriors" who tell me tbey are spewing their hate towards my girls because they love these "oppressed brown people."
I've often considered giving up this work because of the weight of it. To see these things, this much evil, all the time and be POWERLESS to stop it is soul sickening. We cycle through staff every few months because very few can stay on this work and that's hard on these kids too.
But I stay. I soak the nightmares and the nausea and the self-loathing I feel for being unable to just swoop in and make this horror stop because some of the kids do come out of it. Because I can reach them or help them...sometimes.
But now the evil threatens my family, and I apparently have to choose between helping the abandoned four year old "daughter" of the not yet 20 year old "mother" in ICE custody...or keeping my own girls safe.
Tell me, who will take my place? Which of the "social justice warriors" that sent emails to my office telling me how they were going to harm my daughters is lining up to take my place? Which Hollywood big mouth is offering a single room in any of their mansions to house these kids? The hypocrisy of it is insane.
But I'm just an evil white man somehow profiting off these suffering "families" we're breaking up. Ok.
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You said her mother was back in her own country, then you said she was in ice custody. You keep saying "name one instance where we take children" saying you are an agent but then you say you aren't. How do you know all this information then? Just as a counselor? In the instance of being trafficked, it is a horrible crime that has been happening but as soon as people fleeing their country increases, this taking of children happens. I for one don't want these children living in countries where horrible things can happen to them. The families who are trying to bring their kids here to protect them from things like that because by the way most of trafficked kids are being KIDNAPPED from their parents to begin with so why blame a mother when you don't know the whole story?
ReplyYou appear to have trouble with continuity.
He is clearly upset that people consider him to be an "ICE agent" just because he works with ICE as some sort of counselor.
He also makes it clear that the woman who was with the little girl in his letter was not her actual mother.
He blames the child's mother because he says "that's how it usually works" -- probably meaning that in more than one case he's found out that the parents of his case-file children were people willing to sell their own children, which really isn't that rare of a thing, if you look at global custom. In any case, he also mentioned that maybe that wasn't the situation here, and maybe this child *was* taken away from a loving family by kidnappers. I rather thought one of the main points of his letter was that it was going to be difficult or impossible to find out for sure.
I find it interesting that you had much so to say to admonish him -- but precious little to say about the people threatening the lives and innocence of his children, all because he's daring to work as a crisis counselor for ICE. You rather neatly made his point for him though. Your outrage is reserved for the people trying to *help* -- however badly -- and not properly directed at the people creating this situation in the first place.
ReplyI used to care about all the kvetching by the leftoids.
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