FOX 5 News in DC and the Baltimore Banner recently posted footage of ICE agents attacking the car of Maryland mother Elsy Noemi Berrios and her daughter, Karen Cruz Berrios, as they were parked in the street on March 31.
The elder Barrios is originally from El Salvador and seeking asylum, but the Banner reported she is now being held at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania.
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“Don’t grab her like that!” shouted Cruz Barrios. “Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Agents had been stalking Barrios’ home in the days leading up to the grab, having previously visited the property without being allowed entry each time.
“They didn’t have a warrant. They knew their rights. ICE went away,” said Halle Blitzstein, the mother’s Baltimore-based attorney.
“I didn’t know they could do something like that — especially when you hadn’t done anything,” Cruz told reporters.
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Cruz Berrios and Blitzstein deny the accusation.
“My mother, she works really hard since she was really little, and she never had anything to do with gangs or anything like that,” Cruz Berrios told CNN, adding that her mother came to the U.S. to flee the El Salvadorian gang presence.
{*} While this article is biased in favor of the illegal, and mean’t to tug at your heartstrings, the fact of the matter is this…It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been hiding in my country, illegal means just that…Illegal.
* Original Article:
https://www.alternet.org/amp/ice-arrests-mother-2671730358