July 3, 2018: Another Infant Separated From Mother at Immigration Checkpoint

[waiguoren]

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Border Patrol Agents Arrest Yuma Resident and Seize $158K of Meth

YUMA, Ariz. – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Wellton Station Interstate 8 Immigration Checkpoint arrested a Yuma resident for transporting 41 packages of methamphetamine in her vehicle Monday.

At approximately 10:31 a.m., agents sent a green 2005 Chrysler Pacifica to the secondary inspection area for further investigation. A Border Patrol canine positively alerted to an odor it was trained to detect while agents questioned the 36-year-old female United States citizen driver. Agents discovered 41 wrapped packages of methamphetamine hidden in the vehicle’s rear quarter panels. The narcotics weighed approximately 52.5 pounds and is worth nearly $157,500. The driver’s 2-year-old child was in the backseat of the vehicle at the time. The child was released into the custody of a relative.
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Is it wrong to separate parent/child in this case?

 

[44nutman]

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Border Patrol Agents Arrest Yuma Resident and Seize $158K of Meth

YUMA, Ariz. – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Wellton Station Interstate 8 Immigration Checkpoint arrested a Yuma resident for transporting 41 packages of methamphetamine in her vehicle Monday.

At approximately 10:31 a.m., agents sent a green 2005 Chrysler Pacifica to the secondary inspection area for further investigation. A Border Patrol canine positively alerted to an odor it was trained to detect while agents questioned the 36-year-old female United States citizen driver. Agents discovered 41 wrapped packages of methamphetamine hidden in the vehicle’s rear quarter panels. The narcotics weighed approximately 52.5 pounds and is worth nearly $157,500. The driver’s 2-year-old child was in the backseat of the vehicle at the time. The child was released into the custody of a relative.
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Is it wrong to separate parent/child in this case?

 

[TheGreatA]

I think they (the drug gangs) take the infants with them (along with a female courier) to garner sympathy and to decrease suspicion in these cases. There's a good chance that the kid isn't even hers.

A criminal organization will always take advantage of anything that might play in their favour. In the current media-driven climate, your best bet is to play the victim and hope that the border agents look past you, because they're in fear of negative publicity. That's basically what led to the bullshit in Europe, where organized crime and smugglers received a massive boost due to the "refugee crisis".

Border agents were too fearful of the media constantly hounding them as racist, to do their jobs.

Good thing is that in America, they've got a President who has got their back. In Europe, the job is just unbearable, because everybody's just shitting all over you, for doing your job, preventing a massive amount of drugs, guns, smuggled goods and trafficked humans, from coming in.

 

[bushman505]

We need to stop this insanity and abolish ICE.

 

[elfeliz]

There goes your meth, trump supporters.

 

[SammyPops]

Smuggling meth is wrong. She should not have done that.

 

[waiguoren]

I think they (the drug gangs) take the infants with them (along with a female courier) to garner sympathy and to decrease suspicion in these cases. There's a good chance that the kid isn't even hers.

A criminal organization will always take advantage of anything that might play in their favour. In the current media-driven climate, your best bet is to play the victim and hope that the border agents look past you, because they're in fear of negative publicity. That's basically what led to the bullshit in Europe, where organized crime and smugglers received a massive boost due to the "refugee crisis".

Border agents were too fearful of the media constantly hounding them as racist, to do their jobs.

Good thing is that in America, they've got a President who has got their back. In Europe, the job is just unbearable, because everybody's just shitting all over you, for doing your job, preventing a massive amount of drugs, guns, smuggled goods and trafficked humans, from coming in.

In your view is that an EU-wide problem or specific to a few nations?

 

[Ophydian]

$158k? Sounds like this was a test run to see if using mother’s and children to smuggle drugs might work considering all of the media attention. The title is another instance of mental gymnastics as this has 0 relevance on family separation and this thread should go to the dump.

 

[BassAckwards]

we all know ice planted the meth

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Where would you smuggle 41 packages of meth when you’re on foot.

I don’t think anyone has a problem with arresting people for smuggling drugs.

This seems simple but I think certain people struggle with these concepts

 

[waiguoren]

this has 0 relevance on family separation

It is quite literally a case of family separation. The press release specifically notes the infant was separated from her mother.

 

[Seano]

She thought that kid would get her right through with no problem.

 

[YaWinSumYaLoseSum]

Sucks flip 140k for 500k and retire in some mansion in Mexico

 

[kickboxjh]

You get separated from your family if you break the law, how's this a new thing?

Those who advocate for letting these people in, what reasons do you have?

 

[Ophydian]

It is quite literally a case of family separation. The press release specifically notes the infant was separated from her mother.

And rightfully so but you completely missed the point on family separations. Unless you think the 2500 families that were separated months ago were also smuggling drugs. You are cherry picking in a disgusting fashion to prove a point that separating families should be ok because of this one example.

 

[Ophydian]

You get separated from your family if you break the law, how's this a new thing?

Those who advocate for letting these people in, what reasons do you have?

No one is advocating on letting them but not separating children from their mothers when the child safety is not in question. How simple is that for anyone to understand? What the right is trying to do is show these people are less than human and therefore they do not deserve the same inalienable rights.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Smuggling meth is wrong. She should not have done that.

Different culture, hard to judge.

 

[SammyPops]

Different culture, hard to judge.

I really lol at this. I spend a lot of time at a urban hospital in Toronto, and your post made me think of the drug shit I see as culture.

 

[waiguoren]

Unless you think the 2500 families that were separated months ago were also smuggling drugs

What's your evidence that the 1,940 "family units" were actual family units? Under Obama's catch-and-release policy we've had multiple cases of adults bringing unrelated minors alongside them.

How many "family units" were separated under Obama? I doubt you can provide that data. I'm willing to bet that the number is much larger than 1,940.

What's your evidence that none of them were smuggling drugs? It's quite common for illegal border crossers to be carrying drugs.

You are cherry picking in a disgusting fashion to prove a point that separating families should be ok because of this one example.

Not really.

You wrote that it was right to separate parent and child in this case. I agree with you.

What about the case in which the minor is 17 years old and the parent has committed the felony of illegal re-entry? Catch and release or prosecute the parent? Those are our two choices under current law.

 

[Darkballs]

So they found the meth without sending the child off to a detention center in another state? What exactly did you think this article proved Mr C-?