Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper posted this video after conducting an oversight visit at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Aurora. While there, he met with two young sisters, one 18 years old and in high school, and the other who is 20 and has a full scholarship at a community college.
About a month ago, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent the sisters a letter telling them they needed to appear for a routine check-in. As soon as they showed up for their check-in as instructed, ICE officers immediately arrested them. Neither of the young women has a criminal record and both have active asylum claims. One of their parents is a U.S. citizen and Navy veteran.
So far both sisters have been in detention for over a month. They missed Thanksgiving with their family and it will now likely miss Christmas as well.
Sen. Hickenlooper posted the above video to draw attention to the women’s harassment and highlight the Trump regime’s ongoing cruelty and efforts to intimidate people lawfully present in the U.S. and how the federal government is wasting billions of dollars on harassing, kidnapping and detaining innocent, productive people who are in the U.S. legally and complying with all laws.
Incidentally, for those who respond to this situation by saying these women “should do things the legal way,” United States Immigration law requires anyone seeking asylum in the U.S. to first enter the country to request it. The following screen shot showing the legal steps required to obtain asylum. It was taken directly from the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services website, from the page about how to affirmatively seek asylum in the United States:
