{"id":3762,"date":"2010-09-05T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forthelost.wordpress.com\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:15:22","slug":"womans-children-in-cancun-orphanage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/05\/womans-children-in-cancun-orphanage\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman’s Children in Canc\u00fan Orphanage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article here<\/a><\/p>\n

To Jennifer Aguilera-Hurtado, the U.S.-Mexico border is still as porous as a screen door, the illicit traffic between the two countries breezing through despite stretches of wall and wire, patrols of National Guardsmen and Minutemen, Arizona ire and the cruel heat of an endless desert.<\/p>\n

“Every day, you hear about how many people are crossing the border illegally,” she says. “It’s always in the news.”<\/p>\n

She’s not so much concerned with what or who is coming into the United States, though, but who is going out: Children, hundreds of them, snatched up and sneaked across the border by one parent against the wishes of the other and in violation of custody orders.<\/p>\n

“This is the border crisis you never hear about,” she says.<\/p>\n

Mexico has the highest number of international parental child abduction cases from the United States, according to the U.S. State Department. Right now, there are just under 600 open cases involving almost 900 children illegally taken by a parent into Mexico, a State Department official says.<\/p>\n

Two of those children are Aguilera-Hurtado’s. Hannah is 3 and Teresa will be 8 on Wednesday, and their mother will be 1,535 miles and a world away in Albuquerque for that birthday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is an article I found about the Aguilera-Hurtado girls.<\/a> Apparently their father who abducted them is broke and can’t fight more in the Mexican courts, but the kids are still in an orphanage, much like Liam McCarty. I’m not sure there’s much more I can say about the ridiculousness of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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