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When she arrived, Stenvik said the father’s car was still running and the father and son had already been apprehended. An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement.

Stenvik said another adult living in the home was outside during the encounter and had pleaded to take care of Liam so the boy could avoid detention, but was denied. Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing, Stenvik said. Two school principals from the district also arrived at the home to offer support.

Marc Prokosch, an attorney representing the family, said the family has an active asylum case and shared paperwork showing the father and son had arrived to the US at a port of entry, meaning an official crossing point.

“The family did everything they were supposed to in accordance with how the rules have been set out,” he said. “They did not come here illegally. They are not criminals.” He said there was no order of deportation against them and he believes the father and son have remained together in detention.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    33 minutes ago

    At this stage non-violence is compliance.

    That child needed people out there with guns fighting for them to stop them getting sent to the camps. Bullies like this back down quickly when people genuinely stand up to them.

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    4 hours ago

    “This is a crossing point. The Nazis decided to arrest a good jew, that didn’t commit any crime and wasn’t here illegally”

    So you see Trump hunting down minorities, actively trying to kill and/or torture them, but the line is only crossed when it’s the “good ones”?

    I really hate that moronic shit, you’re basically implying that it wasn’t a problem when the ones being hunted down were ones without papers, and fuck you for that. If the " line" that determines whether something is immoral or not for you is a fucking piece of paper, then fuck you.

    This attorney is basically making it sound like the nazis are not doing anything wrong as long as they have an administrative justification.