Asylum Seeker Commits Suicide When US Border Patrol Rips Him From His Family.
They came from Honduras. Marco Antonio Munoz, his wife and their 3-year-old child. They successfully crossed the Rio Grande together, and came across the Mexican/US border near a tiny Texas town called Granjeno.
They were here legally, asylum seekers. Of course, #ABC was quick to say the opposite.
Honduras is a land in crisis. They have the worlds highest murder rate. Gang violence, extortion and drug wars are every day events for the citizens.
Their president, Juan Orlando Hernandez took over the country via a coup in 2009, and the protests after the election in 2017 killed several people.
They just finally banned child marriage LAST YEAR.
President Hernandez
Over half of Honduran people live below the poverty line and the middle class is pretty much non-existant. Most of the wealth and political power are still in the hands of members of the military.
Life is incredibly difficult for people there. So Marco and his little family came here, seeking legal political asylum.
They were detained by border patrol, and brought to a processing facility where they told the agents they were, in fact, seeking asylum.
But thanks to Trump's new zero tolerance policy, this is where the family was torn apart.
ICE agents physically forced Marco to give them his child. They took the toddler right out of his arms.
Can you imagine? You come from a country torn apart, struggle your way up through several other countries seeking safety and protection in "The Land of the Free". You want to raise your child away from the drugs and the violence and the poverty.
And the first thing those mother fuckers do is steal your child right out of your arms.
Munoz
Marco was livid. He did not strike out at any agents, he did not assault or touch a single person.
But they are quoted as saying: "He lost his shit."
You are treating these people like you are welcoming them to Nazi Germany during the holocaust and you want him to just be chill?
You have LOST 1,500 CHILDREN!!! Why would anyone in their right mind trust you with theirs?!
Instead of being brought to a local jail, Antonio was brought to the Starr County Jail in Rio Grande City and placed in a padded cell, because he was so distraught over being seperated from his wife and child.
Think of it through his eyes, he is in a huge country, asking for help. How is he going to find them again? Nothing was explained in a way to calm him, or help him understand.
He was checked on every 30 minutes. Marco was seen praying at one point.
Then, the next day, obviously out of his head with loss, he took his own life. He was found with a sweater wrapped around his neck and connected to a drain pipe.
Starr County refuses to release his autopsy report. You guys, the jail did not report this. No local media was informed. It was not until the #WashingtonPost got their hands on a Sherriff's report that this story saw the light of day.
If you want to ask questions of them, Starr County Jail can be reached at: (956)-487-4552
Marco was found dead on May 13th, and the Post just broke the story a few days ago. They tried covering his death up.
The Department of Homeland Security will not say if the mother and child have been assisted with their asylum, only that they have since been released.
That baby will grow up without his father. She will raise her son alone, in a country so different, so hostile, so fucking wrong. I hope you're okay out there, Mrs. Munoz, wherever you are, I jope you and that baby have found somewhere safe.
I wish you so much love.
This is a very devastating story and so many people deal with all kinds of situations like this where they don't know where to turn. We think we are safe but our own governments and systems are failing us big time as a matter of fact they are the biggest criminals.
We are at a very scary point. In the future, they will look back and ask why we let this happen.
Since their main job is to secure the border they are failing when they fail to do so.
Such a sad story, we have lost our humanity.... I am getting very worried with the hostile climate around immigration, not everyone is a drug dealer or any of the names they give them, some are just trying to make a better life for themselves....
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a story that has broken my heart ... this type of case is really devastating. I also think that we must do something, we must unite and prevent this from continuing.
Political asylum is not for people whose life is difficult, it is not a remedy for all ills, political asylum is for those being persecuted and endangered due to politics, not just because their country is a shithole.