(From the article): “A 10-year-old Venezuelan boy facing deportation proceedings in the United States appeared alone in immigration court in Texas while his mother remained in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “I was scared because it was my first time in court,” Wilfredo Hoyos-Gomez told the Spanish-language outlet Univision after attending an immigration court hearing last week in Houston without legal representation.
Immigration authorities have detained more than 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to data analyzed by the Marshall Project. Of those, more than 3,600 children have been deported from detention since the start of the administration, the analysis found.
Newsweek has contacted the boy’s legal guardian for comment via GoFundMe and his mother’s attorney by email.
Castro said DHS is seeking to remove the child to Ecuador, a country he said Wilfredo had never been to. The congressman added that Gomez Bracho has a work permit and had been attempting to comply with immigration requirements. “ICE must release her and stop its case to deport Wilfredo immediately. He should be treated like a kid—not a criminal,” Castro wrote on social media.
Marife Mosquera, a former employer of Gomez Bracho, is serving as Wilfredo’s legal guardian, Univision reported, as no immediate family members are available to accompany him in court. “One of the fears is that ICE will absorb him, and that they will have to put him in detention or that he will be deported,” Mosquera told the outlet.
“There is a risk that he will be deported to Ecuador, a country where he has no family. Wilfredo only has his mother,” said a GoFundMe campaign created on Wilfredo’s behalf.
Mosquera told Univision that a letter had recently arrived indicating that authorities had attempted to proceed with deporting Wilfredo to Ecuador. She also said she was informed that, because of his mother’s detention, Wilfredo’s immigration case was now being handled independently from hers.
“‘A 10-year-old represented himself in immigration court’ is a dystopian statement that seems fake at first glance but is actually a relatively common occurrence in our absurd system,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, wrote on X.”
ZonghZonghZongh on
Speak up, MAGA! Tell us that this is what you voted for. Heartless, cowardly, irredeemable pieces of shit, man.
IrishPorpoise on
Gonna need a new Nuremberg tribunal for all these fucking evil people
No-Expert-9181 on
USA, is this really you?
Sleepwokesleepwoke on
Some old magad boomer is super happy about this.
projexion_reflexion on
Should be pretty easy to pass a law requiring lawyers for kids in court. I mean, who could be opposed to that?
verathene on
How many of these cases have already resulted in a child dying alone on the streets of some country they don’t know?
whateveryousaymydear on
In Matthew 25:40, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me”.
MikeyMalloy on
This kind of stuff actually happens all the time. Because it’s a civil proceeding you have no right to appointed counsel, even as a child. This results in grotesque scenes where adults are cross examining young children about whether to send them back to a country where they might end up dead. The immigration system is a kafkaesque farce.
lela7188 on
Don’t know how anyone can condone this cruelty America is committing right now, my heart breaks for the families being torn apart from one another, sent to prisons for no reason and then deported. I think maga gets a sick kick out of it all.
Ok-Hornet3129 on
I just hope that hell is big enough for Trumps fat ass!!!
Middle-Armadillo-660 on
So…. When does someone start to “remove” maga kids? That would be awful. Just awful.
Naes422 on
Donald Trump and Republicans are deporting him you mean.
usernames_suck_ok on
It’s after reading stories like these where you should kind of want to spit on the “good” Republicans who say stuff like, “Well, I don’t agree with this, but…”
GaimeGuy on
I just don’t understand how you can deport a boy to a country he’s never been to.
If the determination is being made based on the heritage of his mother, then the cases should be combined.
otherwisepandemonium on
Hey MAGA, how do you justify this? How is this right in any sense?
Republicans are the most repugnant, traitorous, pieces of shit. They would rather let a 34-time convicted felon pedophile rapist continue to rape the people and the Constitution while doing shit like this and giving $400 million of our tax dollars to Trump for a ballroom.
Republicans voted specifically for this. Do not let them forget.
wyopapa25 on
What a bunch of tough guys
Doppelthedh on
Remember to report your local conservatives to ICE as potential immigrants. They can have their lawyers straighten it all out if they arent
Snoo_censorspeech on
Things change when you stop letting the grunts who actually DO THE BAD THINGS from doing them. Yeah the order came from up top but how many dozens followed the order? People said it was wrong to hate soldiers who fought in Vietnam. We are in this situation because we didn’t hate them nearly enough. Sic simper tyranus
badtik on
Christians hate compassion
helm_hammer_hand on
Fuck every person involved in the legal system that allowed this to happen.
ExpertlyPuzzled on
What the hell? Why has he been separated from his mother? Why does he not have representation? What the crap is this? This is so wrong.
futilediversion on
Well we obviously can’t let him grow up to be MS-13 years old 🙄
SirCatball on
The horrible thing here is that this is just how our immigration system works, even before Trump and his goons somehow made it even worse. It’s incredibly messed up, but under current law it’s entirely legal. Stuff like this is why we need to go further than just abolishing ICE, we need to fundamentally change our immigration system.
Myheelcat on
This is just as much the judges fault for not questioning why there was no representation for the kid…
FormerNeighborhood80 on
Don’t any of these people have a conscience? Don’t they have children of their own? I can’t imagine what sort of monster could do that to a child.
Eddfan36 on
Such evil people, how can they be so proud of this?
AutomaticRadish115 on
I hope that every ice agent rots in hell.
Odd_Collection7431 on
We let the deplorables join our government
RLewis8888 on
I feel so much safer knowing these desperate killers are out of the countries.
AdonisChrist on
Pretty sure John Oliver told me months ago that it’s standard operating procedure for ICE detainees to not receive lawyers, that includes children as young as like 4 who may have to appear in court alone, and surprisingly things typically don’t go well for children when they appear alone in court.
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(From the article): “A 10-year-old Venezuelan boy facing deportation proceedings in the United States appeared alone in immigration court in Texas while his mother remained in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “I was scared because it was my first time in court,” Wilfredo Hoyos-Gomez told the Spanish-language outlet Univision after attending an immigration court hearing last week in Houston without legal representation.
Immigration authorities have detained more than 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to data analyzed by the Marshall Project. Of those, more than 3,600 children have been deported from detention since the start of the administration, the analysis found.
Newsweek has contacted the boy’s legal guardian for comment via GoFundMe and his mother’s attorney by email.
Castro said DHS is seeking to remove the child to Ecuador, a country he said Wilfredo had never been to. The congressman added that Gomez Bracho has a work permit and had been attempting to comply with immigration requirements. “ICE must release her and stop its case to deport Wilfredo immediately. He should be treated like a kid—not a criminal,” Castro wrote on social media.
Marife Mosquera, a former employer of Gomez Bracho, is serving as Wilfredo’s legal guardian, Univision reported, as no immediate family members are available to accompany him in court. “One of the fears is that ICE will absorb him, and that they will have to put him in detention or that he will be deported,” Mosquera told the outlet.
“There is a risk that he will be deported to Ecuador, a country where he has no family. Wilfredo only has his mother,” said a GoFundMe campaign created on Wilfredo’s behalf.
Mosquera told Univision that a letter had recently arrived indicating that authorities had attempted to proceed with deporting Wilfredo to Ecuador. She also said she was informed that, because of his mother’s detention, Wilfredo’s immigration case was now being handled independently from hers.
“‘A 10-year-old represented himself in immigration court’ is a dystopian statement that seems fake at first glance but is actually a relatively common occurrence in our absurd system,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, wrote on X.”
Speak up, MAGA! Tell us that this is what you voted for. Heartless, cowardly, irredeemable pieces of shit, man.
Gonna need a new Nuremberg tribunal for all these fucking evil people
USA, is this really you?
Some old magad boomer is super happy about this.
Should be pretty easy to pass a law requiring lawyers for kids in court. I mean, who could be opposed to that?
How many of these cases have already resulted in a child dying alone on the streets of some country they don’t know?
In Matthew 25:40, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me”.
This kind of stuff actually happens all the time. Because it’s a civil proceeding you have no right to appointed counsel, even as a child. This results in grotesque scenes where adults are cross examining young children about whether to send them back to a country where they might end up dead. The immigration system is a kafkaesque farce.
Don’t know how anyone can condone this cruelty America is committing right now, my heart breaks for the families being torn apart from one another, sent to prisons for no reason and then deported. I think maga gets a sick kick out of it all.
I just hope that hell is big enough for Trumps fat ass!!!
So…. When does someone start to “remove” maga kids? That would be awful. Just awful.
Donald Trump and Republicans are deporting him you mean.
It’s after reading stories like these where you should kind of want to spit on the “good” Republicans who say stuff like, “Well, I don’t agree with this, but…”
I just don’t understand how you can deport a boy to a country he’s never been to.
If the determination is being made based on the heritage of his mother, then the cases should be combined.
Hey MAGA, how do you justify this? How is this right in any sense?
Republicans are the most repugnant, traitorous, pieces of shit. They would rather let a 34-time convicted felon pedophile rapist continue to rape the people and the Constitution while doing shit like this and giving $400 million of our tax dollars to Trump for a ballroom.
Republicans voted specifically for this. Do not let them forget.
What a bunch of tough guys
Remember to report your local conservatives to ICE as potential immigrants. They can have their lawyers straighten it all out if they arent
Things change when you stop letting the grunts who actually DO THE BAD THINGS from doing them. Yeah the order came from up top but how many dozens followed the order? People said it was wrong to hate soldiers who fought in Vietnam. We are in this situation because we didn’t hate them nearly enough. Sic simper tyranus
Christians hate compassion
Fuck every person involved in the legal system that allowed this to happen.
What the hell? Why has he been separated from his mother? Why does he not have representation? What the crap is this? This is so wrong.
Well we obviously can’t let him grow up to be MS-13 years old 🙄
The horrible thing here is that this is just how our immigration system works, even before Trump and his goons somehow made it even worse. It’s incredibly messed up, but under current law it’s entirely legal. Stuff like this is why we need to go further than just abolishing ICE, we need to fundamentally change our immigration system.
This is just as much the judges fault for not questioning why there was no representation for the kid…
Don’t any of these people have a conscience? Don’t they have children of their own? I can’t imagine what sort of monster could do that to a child.
Such evil people, how can they be so proud of this?
I hope that every ice agent rots in hell.
We let the deplorables join our government
I feel so much safer knowing these desperate killers are out of the countries.
Pretty sure John Oliver told me months ago that it’s standard operating procedure for ICE detainees to not receive lawyers, that includes children as young as like 4 who may have to appear in court alone, and surprisingly things typically don’t go well for children when they appear alone in court.
Fucking monsters…