'I Have No Idea Where My Daughter Is':
Migrant Parents Are Desperate for News
New York Times,
by
Miriam Jordan
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/10/2021 10:38:46 AM
When Maria Ana Mendez left Honduras a decade ago to earn money in the United States, her daughter Cindy was still in pigtails and playing with dolls. But settled now with a job and an apartment in upstate New York, Mendez was ready to bring Cindy to live with her. Because she is still without legal status and could not legally bring her into the country, she paid a guide $8,000 in February to take Cindy, now 16, across thousands of miles to the doorstep of the United States. Three weeks later, Mendez heard from her daughter for the first
Reply 1 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/10/2021 10:46:32 AM (No. 750422)
Next up - foreign family reunion immigration. Courtesy of US taxpayers, of course.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
reefdiver 4/10/2021 10:48:40 AM (No. 750425)
Thanks Joekamala, it is on you.
16 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 4/10/2021 10:52:30 AM (No. 750428)
Not a word about who's responsible. Nice, NYT.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/10/2021 10:59:49 AM (No. 750437)
What a terrible situation. Perhaps they should have stayed home instead of breaking the law and invading this country. I guess that would have been too simple.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TLCary 4/10/2021 11:03:02 AM (No. 750440)
"without legal status"
And we found the bald-faced lie at the center of this problem. She absolutely has a legal status. She is a Citizen of Honduras, and illegally living in our country in violation of our laws, (laws that read like every other country on the planet).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/10/2021 11:13:19 AM (No. 750446)
Your daughter knows where you are, and could call or write, if she wanted to.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Califedup 4/10/2021 11:31:49 AM (No. 750468)
Sob, Sniffle, Sob, why we can't we just let everyone come into this country who wants too and we wouldn't have this heartbreaking story from a criminal illegal alien who is a terrible parent. Sob, Oh Boo Hoo, you mean old Americans. We will not have regained our country until every single one, repeat every single illegal alien is rounded up and shipped back to the hell holes they came from. No exceptions. Remove the lawbreakers.
Free America!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/10/2021 11:35:45 AM (No. 750480)
These people's sense of priorities leaves me shaking my head. What should be her main priority? HER DAUGHTER! Instead she leaves her ten years ago to sneak into the USA to make money. Momma's an illegal, been laying low for ten years. Yeah, money is important, but your daughter is more important than money. Her daughter has been without her mother for ten years. So wrong. She should never let her daughter out of her sight. Instead she pays some stranger she does not know to sneak her daughter she hasn't seen in ten years into the country. Big mistake. What could go wrong? EVERYTHING! A guide that's a crook? A daughter that lost her ties to mother long ago?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
beancounter 4/10/2021 11:36:49 AM (No. 750481)
So the government is reuniting the illegal alien teenager with the illegal alien parent so they can deport the together, right?
Does that ever happen?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 4/10/2021 11:41:20 AM (No. 750488)
Stay in your own country.
No sympathy.
Deport them all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
joew9 4/10/2021 11:49:04 AM (No. 750496)
Many of the people and families pushed by the Central American authorities to leave their country and go to the US are druggies, petty criminals, and generally problem people. They were a drag on their original country. They are going to be a drag here too.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 4/10/2021 11:49:28 AM (No. 750497)
Have we heard from the Human Trafficker in Chief on Cindy Mendez's fate? China Joe and his minions have enabled the Mexican cartels to make millions of $$$ from the desperate migrant trade. And get this they are going to send direct payments to Central Americans to stay home. What is the over and under that the payments are funneled to the Coyotes for additional caravans of migrants. Just admit it China Joe. America is the new El Norte.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Zarin 4/10/2021 12:17:27 PM (No. 750510)
Why isn't the mom down there at the US shelter claiming her child? She knows where she is... unlike what the headline says. So by Mom paying $8000 that should have guaranteed a 'paid' wrist band for the girl - a pretty wrist band with an ID # and 'Gold' insignia indicating the kid would get VIP treatment. Oh, wait - she was dealing with criminals - not covered by the 'Better Business Bureau' - so the child gets dumped and ICE has to deal with an impossible situation.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/10/2021 12:17:51 PM (No. 750512)
Left a small child behind and didn’t try to reunite with her for ten years, during which she managed to amass $8000 to pay to a coyote?
I prefer my sob stories closer to home. And with real parents.
Her daughter is 16 and attractive. Fortunate to have ended up with only Covid. Hardhearted me? You betcha.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/10/2021 12:33:21 PM (No. 750523)
Maria, abandoning your daughter, entering America illegally, then expecting special treatment here? Isn't what you did considered child abuse? Do you hate my country's Constitution?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Californian 4/10/2021 12:43:18 PM (No. 750526)
We should definitely reunite parents in this unfortunate situation.
In Honduras.
Kick em both out. Give them a free bus ticket south and a Biden tshirt that says on the back, "I illegally entered the US and all I got was this tshirt".
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
starboard 4/10/2021 12:44:56 PM (No. 750528)
This story does not ring true for me. It's virtue signaling on steroids. Prove Cindy is the daughter. The trafficking of children has become a multi billion dollar industry that Joe Biden is promoting in conjunction with the cartels. Joe has become the tool of the Leftist oligarchy, aka, Satan's lieutenants along with their media sergeants like the NYT.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
columba 4/10/2021 12:57:57 PM (No. 750539)
This is from the New York Times. It is written only for your emotional response.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
maryann4629 4/10/2021 12:59:40 PM (No. 750540)
Soooooo many questions! My biggest: How can an illegal alien, presumably with no form of ID, fly across the country, when the rest of us get a TSA anal probe before we can get on a plane?!?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/10/2021 1:05:34 PM (No. 750545)
Awww. Pigtails and dolls, all ribbons and curls, right NYT? How do we even know there is a real Cindy?
The mother is in the U.S. illegally and is in no way ready to receive her daughter here. She has no standing and must be deported herself. How can she board a plane to San Diego without any legal status? The driver’s license she obtained illegally? When this is over, she will recoup her $8,000 supposedly given to a human smuggler, her air fare will be reimbursed and she will get reparations for her pain and suffering all paid for by you and me. And we’ll never know if Cindy ever really even existed or was any relation to Mendez. Worse than a fool and his money is a fool with our money.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 4/10/2021 3:02:51 PM (No. 750600)
This article shows the false narrative behind Joe Biden’s scheme to allow immigrants to enter thru the southern border to the US. No organization, no Covid testing, no notification to immigrant parents, This whole process is sinful, unsafe and costly, not only to the immigrants, but the taxpayers. Joe Biden should go down in history as the worst President of the 21st century.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BillW. 4/10/2021 3:27:22 PM (No. 750612)
Thanks Zippy. This is on you.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/10/2021 3:58:10 PM (No. 750634)
The NYT had no idea that Yahoo would publish an NBC article on this mother/daughter right below its article. Read this one - more pathos and more details, but no mention of the $8K to the coyote:
https://news.yahoo.com/teen-crossed-border-reunites-her-151001988.html
SAN DIEGO — Cindy, 17, had not seen her mother in a decade. Last month, she took a chance and journeyed from Honduras until she reached the U.S. border from Mexico for a chance to reunite with her mother, who lives in New York.
Cindy, who is being identified only by her first name for safety reasons, spent three days in a hospital bed on the opposite side of the country, in California, as she battled Covid-19. Although she had spent several weeks in U.S. immigration facilities before she fell ill, her mother did not learn about her daughter's hospitalization until Cindy was able to borrow a phone from a doctor at the hospital.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/10/2021 5:08:27 PM (No. 750693)
Maria Ana, sorry, but you reap what you sow. My sympathy is not with you.
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Well, maybe mama and papa and los ninos SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME IN HONDURAS. I have no sympathy whatsoever.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
SALady 4/11/2021 12:08:29 PM (No. 751268)
She spent $8,000 to trap her daughter into a life of prostitution and sex slavery???
Not exactly very smart of her, or "mother of the year" candidacy material!!!
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