I’m still trying to figure out why blocking the buses is going to be productive in deporting these undocumented children.
Obviously, for humanitarian reasons, you need to make sure there is an adult to RECEIVE the deported child on the other end – so it is not as easy as driving a mile into Mexico with a bus and dropping these unescorted kids off.
My understanding is that many of the illegal immigrants are from Guatamala – so they are arranging to deport them back to their home country, and arranging with agencies down there, to receive the minors that came across without parents.
In order to deport them, they have to go through the process, set by law, to have hearings (to confirm they are, in fact, here illegally and do not qualify for asylum.) Once the hearing determines they should be deported, they will be returned to their home country.
Blocking the buses just slows down the process and might even prevent the system from working. That’s why I keep wondering why the folks who want them deported are blocking the buses.
These are people who have been apprehended. They are in detention and custody of the ICE, and are in the process of being deported. Blocking the buses does exactly what? What purpose does it serve? Do they want ICE to stop detaining suspected undocumented people? Do they want ICE to stop the deportation process?
