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Illegal alien families separated by U.S. sue government, demand $3 million each

GOPUSA StaffWashington Times Posted On 11:45 am February 12, 2019
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Six illegal immigrant families filed multi-million dollar claims Monday against the Trump administration over last year’s family separations, saying they need the money to pay for counseling and other medical care to heal from the “torture” they said they suffered.

The legal claims are the latest effort by immigrant-rights groups to punish the administration for the separations of thousands of children, which resulted from the Justice Department’s zero tolerance policy for illegal border crossers.

The families and their lawyers say the policy intended to inflict “emotional distress” on the parents and children, hoping it would make attempting to sneak into the U.S. so uncomfortable that fewer people would attempt it.

“It succeeded with devastating consequences,” said Mark Fleming, associate director of litigation at the National Immigration Justice Center.

Under the zero tolerance policy, the Justice Department began to file criminal charges against most illegal immigrants for illegal entry, a misdemeanor, or re-entry, a felony. The administration said the goal was to create some consequences for families who were breaking the law but generally had been released under the previous policies.

But since the criminal justice system can’t hold families together, the parents were separated from their children, who were then deemed unaccompanied and were placed with the Department of Health and Human Services, which put them in shelters or sought sponsors to take them.

A federal judge in June ordered an end to the separations and ordered the families reunited. That sent the government scrambling to reconnect more than 2,000 children who had been separated from parents who, in some cases, had already been deported.

A legal battle over the pace of reunifications is still being fought in a federal court in California, but Monday’s action is a separate step, seeking to make those snared in the separations whole.

The claims were filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Monday’s action was a notification of claims, and the government now has six months to evaluate the claims and decide what to do.

If the migrants don’t find the government’s response satisfactory, they can file a lawsuit to try to enforce their demand.

Each claimant seeks $3 million.

One Guatemalan woman the lawyers had speak to reporters, identified only as “Leticia,” said her 5-year-old daughter was taken from her for more than four months during the separations.

Leticia, speaking Spanish, said she fled her home because of threats of gang violence and had expected refuge in the U.S. She said she was stunned when officers separated her from her daughter.

“I lost so much weight, I had headaches, I had dizzy spells and I started losing my hair. It was torture,” Leticia said.

“We will live with the trauma of this separation for the rest of our lives.”

In her complaint, Leticia says her daughter has nightmares and night sweats, and sometimes blurts out, “Don’t let them take me away again.”

Other migrants complained of continued headaches, trouble eating and worries over a repeat separation.

A pediatrician told reporters the trauma of a separation can last a lifetime.

The claims were filed against both the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services.

HHS said it couldn’t get into specific claims filed, but said it wasn’t involved in the separations.

Homeland Security said it didn’t have an immediate response to the claims.

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ac0522
ac0522
12:21 pm February 12, 2019 at 12:21 pm
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This is exactly why foreign govts must be required to take immediate custody & responsibility for their minor children citizens who arrive at our border with or without their adult relatives.

Foreign govts have the duty & ability to investigate & prosecute their adult citizen families who have subjected their minor children to the severe emotional & physical child abuse of being forced to trek thousands of miles, mainly on foot, in the most dangerous, unsafe, unsanitary, unhealthy & inhumane conditions.

Leticia deserves not only to lose her hair & suffer headaches but also lose custody of her minor children for the torture & extreme child abuse she herself subjected them to.

US should be suing foreign govts for the cost of caring for their minor children citizens.

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    captjellico
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    3:04 pm February 12, 2019 at 3:04 pm
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    This goes beyond just a bunch of greedy and entitled ILLEGALS trying to get a huge payday. The lawyers who bring these cases should also be punished. Exile or execution–those seem appropriate punishments for conspiring with foreign nationals to harm your homeland.

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    ltuser
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    4:15 pm February 12, 2019 at 4:15 pm
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    Not just that, but if they say they are ‘owed’ 3 mil each, for pain and suffering, due to being SEPARATED by breaking our laws, for a year from each other. THEN BY LOGIC< EVERY COUNTRY south of our border, owes EACH AND EVERY US Family who's lost a loved one, to an illegal alien, 3 mil PER YEAR PER FAMILY member for 'pain and suffering.

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Max daddy
Max daddy
1:41 pm February 12, 2019 at 1:41 pm
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The best argument yet for building a wall. If they can’t get in they can’t sue for being separated.
No sane judge would rule on their behalf in any event. But we have so few of those any more.

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    ltuser
    ltuser
    4:17 pm February 12, 2019 at 4:17 pm
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    And with how many ANTI TRUMP JUDGES we have out there, i can (unfortunately) Easily see these 6 winning their cases.. ESPECIALLY if heard in CA’s courts, where MOST of those anti-trump Constitution hating judges reside.

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Gary Burger
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1:44 pm February 12, 2019 at 1:44 pm
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Actually this is the reason that we need a huge wall to make it perfectly clear that if you were not invited here you are not wanted. Stay home and fix your country. My tax dollars are not for your benefit.

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America weeps
America weeps
1:54 pm February 12, 2019 at 1:54 pm
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By the same logic then, anyone jailed in the United States should be allowed to sue the government if their incarceration causes them emotional distress. The elephant in the room here that the left so desperately wants you to ignore is the fact that these people are here ILLEGALLY. Crossing our border illegally is a CRIME. The last I checked endangering the welfare of a minor is also a crime which makes “poor Letica” guilty of two crimes. This of course matters not at all to the liberal progressives because it doesn’t fit their agenda of open boarders and hey, if they get a chance to take a swipe at the Trump administration then all the better. The sad part is that they could care less about this women or her child.
Lets not forget about the slimy bottom of the barrel attorneys who climb over one another for a chance at the spotlight. They should be sanctioned and disbarred for bringing lawsuits that are frivolous and without merit.
While the United States can exert pressure it can not require a foreign government to do anything. What it can do is change immigration laws that are in my opinion too lenient to more closely reflect those of other countries. Try crossing the boarder illegally into Socialist North Korea and see what happens.

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    ltuser
    ltuser
    4:19 pm February 12, 2019 at 4:19 pm
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    Very true. The fact she willfully took her kid through KNOWN HOSTILE and dangerous terrain, shows she WILLINGLY and with forethought, endangered her kids well being. SO BY RIGHT SHOULD lose her kid.

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dumvet
dumvet
2:36 pm February 12, 2019 at 2:36 pm
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Maybe they should have stayed home

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    ff_emt
    ff_emt
    2:50 pm February 12, 2019 at 2:50 pm
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    typo: leave out the “Maybe”.
    MAGA

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    DrBarbara
    DrBarbara
    3:46 pm February 12, 2019 at 3:46 pm
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    And I’ll bet the little girl didn’t have a choice. Mommy yanked out of her home and made her walk thousands of miles. And I seriously doubt she was separated from Mommy for more than a week. Mommy should have kept her child safe at home. She wanted out of her country because of gang violence? She shouldn’t have come here with all the M13 gangs having free reign in our country.

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      ltuser
      ltuser
      4:20 pm February 12, 2019 at 4:20 pm

      And where was all the dads in this?

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dumvet
dumvet
2:38 pm February 12, 2019 at 2:38 pm
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They should sue their countries!

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    ltuser
    ltuser
    4:21 pm February 12, 2019 at 4:21 pm
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    And so should EVERY AMERICAN family who’s ever lost a loved one, because of an illegal invader from those countries..

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ron389
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2:55 pm February 12, 2019 at 2:55 pm
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It’s always about money. They can claim to be victims in their homeland, but so many of them really only care about leaching money of US Taxpayers.

If it were really about “families being together”, they would not voluntarily separate themselves from their families in their home countries.

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capricorn1
capricorn1
3:27 pm February 12, 2019 at 3:27 pm
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these people have NO rights in america they are not citizens and any lawyer who who helps these people sue the u.s.a. should be stripped of citizen ship and deported alon with the clients.

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    ltuser
    ltuser
    4:22 pm February 12, 2019 at 4:22 pm
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    They SHOULD HAVE NO rights in America..

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petmilk52
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3:38 pm February 12, 2019 at 3:38 pm
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They should have stayed in the country that they were in. But, then they couldn’t get rich off the backs of American taxpayers!

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williweb
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4:52 pm February 12, 2019 at 4:52 pm
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Some unemployed lawyer is always looking for money.

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    ltuser
    ltuser
    1:53 am February 13, 2019 at 1:53 am
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    Turnip lawyers like this should STAY unemployed!

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empd
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6:48 pm February 12, 2019 at 6:48 pm
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Who gave illegals standing? What a crock! It’s enough to gag a maggot.

No AMERICAN CITIZEN who questioned the citizenship of Barry Soetoro (aka Obama) was given standing to sue. The cases were dismissed.

My blood pressure is going off the charts. You have no idea of the emotional distress this is causing me, a tax-paying AMERICAN CITIZEN, to see this lawfare, sedition and treason sanctioned by our judicial system.

Where was this case filed? Patriots need to get over there to that courthouse and make a HUGE stink.

Deport the scum.

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    ltuser
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    1:53 am February 13, 2019 at 1:53 am
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    Not just dismissed, but dismissed with prejudice..

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Linda Archer
Linda Archer
10:06 pm February 12, 2019 at 10:06 pm
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Too bad they didn’t fall off the wall they crossed ILLEGALLY!

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    ltuser
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    2:49 pm February 13, 2019 at 2:49 pm
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    If they did, you can bet some demented libtard lawyer would be Suing for making it too high and injuring them.

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Joseph Morgan
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1:01 am February 13, 2019 at 1:01 am
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Who is paying for their lawyers? Soros? Bloomberg? The DNC? If the courts decide that someone here illegally has standing in court, then the U.S is doomed.

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    ltuser
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    1:54 am February 13, 2019 at 1:54 am
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    Most likey WE the tax victms.

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fredk
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11:05 am February 13, 2019 at 11:05 am
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Send all of them back together.

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