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Remember Maria Gurrolla of Nashville, Tennessee? The woman whose son was kidnapped by a woman posing as an ICE agent? Well, in what has to be described as the most inane bullshit that could only happen in the good ol’ U.S.A., William Bennet let’s us know in comments that Gurrolla got her son back, only to lose him AND HER THREE OTHER CHILDREN in the same day.

A kidnapped newborn is safe in foster care and an Alabama woman suspected of taking him is in custody, but investigators say the case of 4-day-old Yair Anthony Carillo is far from closed.

Among the questions still unanswered are whether a woman who posed as an immigration agent and stabbed the baby’s mother was working alone and why state child welfare workers took the baby and three siblings into custody shortly after the family was reunited.

Child welfare officials would say only that Maria Gurrolla’s children were placed in foster care for “safety” reasons. The department said in a statement Monday that a juvenile court hearing is expected in Nashville Tuesday.

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He said the caseworkers saw something in this situation that made them concerned enough that they felt the safest thing to do was find a foster home for the children. He declined to say what caseworkers were concerned about or whether complaints had been filed against the family.

He said most of the time when DCS takes children, they are eventually returned and the agency always explains to the family what they can do to regain custody.

I wonder what it was that made the caseworkers feel “concern” about. Was it, as was the case with Cirila Baltazar Cruz, that the mother couldn’t speak English? Or, did a family member, as the AP is reporting, attempt to sell the baby?

Sources familiar with the case of a kidnapped Tennessee newborn tell The Associated Press that the boy and three siblings are in foster care after allegations that a family member tried to sell the infant.

The thing about cases like this, is that you never can know for sure. ICE *has* stolen babies from their birth parents for no other reason than English not being a first language in the home. Ex-partners *have* hired people to pose as ICE agents to scare and intimidate women they think still “belong” to them. There is no singular-agreed-upon-written-out-in-multiple-languages method for the government taking children from parents who are in the country without proper documentation.

Terror fuels the government led war against immigrants, and it’s tearing families apart, leaving women stabbed and without their children, and immigrant families criminalized when they are the legitimate victims. I am not a big fan of reform, but if reform at least gets a set singular process in place for ICE agents who are removing children to do so–sweet Jesus, let’s get moving.

No mother, no child, no human being should have to live with this terror hanging over their heads.