Tahirih Justice Center’s Bay Area Executive Director, Morgan Weibel, wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Examiner about her heartbreaking experience at the Port Isabel Detention Center in McAllen, Texas.
“One woman asked me if she could take back the signature that she had unwittingly placed on a document stating she’d give up her daughter to go home when a guard promised her that doing so meant seeing her daughter sooner,” wrote Weibel.
This is not justice. It saddens me beyond words that our government has pushed these parents to a place where they would give up so many rights and perhaps their only chance for safety in hopes that they hold their child in their arms again.
