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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
Replying to @KlasfeldReports
“I did not receive information about my grandchildren’s whereabouts after they were separated from me on April 25, 2018.” Grandchildren’s ages: 3 and 7.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“[One] of the officers asked me, ‘In Guatemala, do they celebrate mother’s day?’ When I said yes, he said ‘Then Happy Mother’s Day’ because the next Sunday was Mother’s Day. I lowered my head so that my daughter would not see the tears forming in my eyes.”
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“I was finally able to get through to someone at the shelter, but learned that the only way for S.K. to be returned to me was to submit a ‘reunification packet request’ to the shelter in order to be qualified as a ‘sponsor’ of my own daughter.” S.K. is eight years old.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“Ludin was not allowed to bathe or brush her teeth for the eight days that she spent in the ‘dog pound.’” Ludin is a mother who was separated from her 9 and 17 year old children.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“Because the detainees were chained together at the ankles, several stumbled and fell as we struggled to ascend and descend the steps of the bus and airplane. One man urinated himself as the detainees were not given bathroom privileges.” Honduran mom, ripped from daughter 3 mths
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“My daughter is at such an enjoyable age, when it is so sweet to be with her. ... My thoughts run in circles, and I feel as though I am going to lose my name.” The daughter is half a year old, separated from her asylum-seeking father, who is detained in Oregon.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“The lawyer said that if I did not declare myself guilty, I would be unable to contact my daughter.” Mother of a six-year-old girl from El Salvador
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“The officer kept saying that I wasn’t my daughter’s mother. ... My life is my daughter.” Asylum-seeking mother separated from her six-year-old and detained in the “icebox.”
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“No one has interviewed me about my request for asylum.” Mexican mother of twins, who crossed the border on May 19
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“My daughter heard this and cried, she came to me and, crying said, ‘oh mom, oh mom’ (ay mami, ay mami), and she grabbed my leg. ... She was crying and crying while they took her away. I couldn’t say goodbye to her. My soul was breaking apart.”
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Adam Klasfeld
“When I first spoke with ICE officers, they told us, ‘why did you come from your country?’, ‘don’t you know that we hate you people?’, ‘we don’t want you in our country.’ ... We are being treated like criminals in chains and everything. We’re just seeking refuge.” Guatemalan mom
1:45 PM - 3 Jul 2018
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by: Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“They did not let me say goodbye to him and I did not see him again... If no one can get him, he will stay in a place with children with no parents. I felt as though my life was over.” Honduran mother separated from her son since May 18.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“The officers said that the children would not return. One said ‘it is the price to pay for crossing the border. We do this so that when you return to your countries you do not return, and so you tell your relatives not to come because we will take your children from you.’”
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“I was in a section with only women. Karla was in another with only girls her age. I only saw her once when she was in line to get her food. We said hello from afar. She looked very sad. I never saw her again.” Mother from El Salvador separated from her six-year old in May.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“The following day the officer told me that they were going to take my son to shower and they sent me somewhere else and they never returned with my son. I felt deceived. I never saw him again. ... I only ask that I be reunited with my son. He needs me.” Mother of a 6-year-old.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
Replying to @NewYorkStateAG
Note: We are not one quarter of the way through these declarations, shared by this morning in three documents filed in the Western District of Washington. This is the first of them.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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"They took me to the ‘icebox.’ ... It was very cold and we were only given blankets made of aluminum foil. We were sleeping on the freezing ground. We were being grossly shouted at.” Honduran single mom separated from her 6-year-old
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“Parents are desperate to talk to their children. Every time a parent has called me after calling their child, they cry.” Volunteer at Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a humanitarian group that works in Mexico and the United States. He recorded nine in this declaration.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“Not a night goes by without me crying, thinking that they aren’t with me and that they need me. Well I just want to tell the Government Committee to put yourselves in my place for a bit and think.” “M,” parent of 2– and 7-year-old children.
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Adam Klasfeld Jul 3
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“As of our last communication with them, none of the above individuals had been informed of plans to reunite them with their minor children, grandchildren, or other minor aged family members.” Senior staff attorney for ABA Immigration Justice Project, referring to families here.
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