Immigration prisoners were one of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days.
But with regard to children, actions against them can draw powerful answers.
“I think that case agents, men and women of (immigration and customs application) and border protection acted in an appropriate manner, taking care, by ensuring that the family was safe,” said the TSAR of the Tom Homan border.
Homan referred to an earlier incident this spring in Sacket Harbor.
On March 27, federal agents of Ice and Border Patrol issued a search warrant on a Harbor Seeckets farm, a community where Homan has a house.
While taking a man – an undocumented individual – in detention to have allegedly possessed juvenile pornography, the agents also found many other people without legal status, including a family – a mother and her three children of school age.
This family, on the right track to become legal, including participation in audiences, was taken to a detention center in Texas. Homan said it was so that they could be correctly questioned.
“They were discussed by health professionals to ensure that they were not victims, to make sure they were going well. We also investigated, we assure that their images were not in any of the evidence that we found. So, I wanted, we protected this,” said Homan.
But this is an explanation that some do not buy and still are not.
When this family, these three children being taken from their home, their school – while working with their mother to win legal status in the right way – began to spread in the city, people were in arms.
Few people have understood why they should be taken to this detention center so far to be questioned. Instead, they thought that the administration was also aiming for children at expulsion.
“Because they know that, you know, what happened here could happen anywhere,” said Jefferson County Democratic Party Corey Decillis.
Decillis helped organize a rally on April 5 which saw more than 1,000 people present themselves. The group worked just in front of the house itself belonging to Tom Homan.
“When there is an attack on one, there is an attack on everyone and everyone. You know, everyone gathers to solve a problem,” said Decillis.
Two days later, the decision was made to bring this family home.
While Decillis believes that the rally played a big role, Homan says that it had no impact.
“I don’t know how it couldn’t, right? I mean, you are so many people in the same goal,” said Decillis.
Homan said Spectrum News 1 That people can hate him, they can blame him, but they will never tell him how to do his job.
After his return home, the school district said that the family did not want to talk about what had happened, and that didn’t speak either, because it had become too decisive of a problem.
A few days after prisoners, one of the farm owners asked Spectrum News 1 Do not come to their property.