Raid and the kid

An interesting piece in the NYTimes more or less touched on a sensible issue. Of course, without saying it loud and clear...

Between the inept AG Beto "desmemorioso" Gonz (s0n of immigrants, mind you) less than satisfactory responses to his pale job performance, and the lack-lustered campaign 08, months of nerve racking raids across the country are taking place.

And the "law enforcement" is working overtime. Some even at 5 am. Chapeau to them! and let's not mention all the extra pay for those hours...

"One student caught up in the raids was 7-year-old Kebin Reyes, who was with his father, Noe, when he was arrested early in the morning of March 6. Mr. Reyes, 37, a Guatemalan, said that after his arrest, he was not allowed to call relatives to come to pick up his son, and that they both were held all day in a locked room at the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco, an experience he says left his son traumatized."

Sounds disgustingly familiar. South of the Rio Grande (and that wall...), it is common practice (mostly during dictatorships) to 'take into custody', the parent with the kid. Only in Chile, over 200 kids were tortured, 1200 'detained' and an unknown amount, died when their mothers were abused. Similarly, children all over the world live in constant fear.

When Gonz (let's not forget he's the main legal enforcement official in the US) say another "I don't recall", close your eyes and imagine you are 7 again, and locked up with one of your parents...