Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn’t know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month.

When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.

His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day.

      • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        So you don’t want the cartels out of the country and such it doesn’t specify who not everyone is your enemy

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          11 hours ago

          That’s a great example because ending the war on drugs would be much more effective than deporting “criminals”. The Republicans elected a criminal; when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.