Lucille
02-15-2012, 01:31 PM
This has caused me such despair today. This country is evil. I added CPS to the title, because it's more a story about CPS stealing children than it is about illegal immigration. This can happen to anyone (and it does), which the "law-and-order" 'tards in this comments section (http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/02/deported_dad_begs_north_carolina_not_put_kids_into _adoption.html) fail to grasp.
The Most Vile and Inhumane Immigration Story You Will Read This Week (http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/15/the-most-vile-and-inhumane-immigration-s)
Marie Montes gave birth to the couple’s third child while her husband was behind bars. Six weeks later Felipe Montes was deported. Two weeks after that, the Allegheny County child welfare department took all three children from Marie Montes on the grounds that she could not afford to take care of them, and put them in foster care, where two of them have already been abused.
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Color Lines, the publication put out by the immigration reform think tank Applied Research Center, interviewed Montes, his wife, and their neighbors in Sparta, North Carolina. “He was a real good guy and as a worker he could do anything,” said Montes’ former boss. “He loved those kids more than anything. We’d be doing tree work and it’d be kind of dangerous and he’d say, ‘I’ll do this but if something happens you have to take care of the kids, ok?’”
“I love my kids to death,” Montes told Color Lines. “When they were born, it’s something so wonderful you can’t explain.”
Apparently, love and dedication doesn’t qualify Montes to be a dad anymore, as the state of North Carolina is putting his children up for adoption:
Allegheny County has already convinced a judge to end family reunification efforts with Marie Montes. She wants the children to be placed with their father. “If they can’t be with me, I want them to be with him,” she said. “Nobody is a better father than he is.”
But next week, on February 21, the county’s Department of Social Services plans to ask a judge to cease all efforts to reunify the family and put the children into adoption proceedings with foster families. Though Felipe Montes was his children’s primary caregiver before he was deported and has not been charged with neglect, the child welfare department nonetheless believes that his children, who have now been in foster care for over a year, are better off in the care of strangers than in Mexico with their father...
The Most Vile and Inhumane Immigration Story You Will Read This Week (http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/15/the-most-vile-and-inhumane-immigration-s)
Marie Montes gave birth to the couple’s third child while her husband was behind bars. Six weeks later Felipe Montes was deported. Two weeks after that, the Allegheny County child welfare department took all three children from Marie Montes on the grounds that she could not afford to take care of them, and put them in foster care, where two of them have already been abused.
[...]
Color Lines, the publication put out by the immigration reform think tank Applied Research Center, interviewed Montes, his wife, and their neighbors in Sparta, North Carolina. “He was a real good guy and as a worker he could do anything,” said Montes’ former boss. “He loved those kids more than anything. We’d be doing tree work and it’d be kind of dangerous and he’d say, ‘I’ll do this but if something happens you have to take care of the kids, ok?’”
“I love my kids to death,” Montes told Color Lines. “When they were born, it’s something so wonderful you can’t explain.”
Apparently, love and dedication doesn’t qualify Montes to be a dad anymore, as the state of North Carolina is putting his children up for adoption:
Allegheny County has already convinced a judge to end family reunification efforts with Marie Montes. She wants the children to be placed with their father. “If they can’t be with me, I want them to be with him,” she said. “Nobody is a better father than he is.”
But next week, on February 21, the county’s Department of Social Services plans to ask a judge to cease all efforts to reunify the family and put the children into adoption proceedings with foster families. Though Felipe Montes was his children’s primary caregiver before he was deported and has not been charged with neglect, the child welfare department nonetheless believes that his children, who have now been in foster care for over a year, are better off in the care of strangers than in Mexico with their father...