Video of illegal arrested in front of her daughters sparks OUTRAGE or something…

I truly don’t understand the outrage over this.

A woman who was in the country illegally was arrested by Customs and Border Patrol on the street in National City, California while she was with her daughters.

Apparently she was going to pay rent when she was approached by two men in plain clothes who confirmed her name and then took her into custody. It clearly shook her daughters who you can hear crying in the video:

Here’s more from NBC San Diego:

A video that shows a woman being arrested in front of her three daughters on a National City sidewalk has prompted outrage on social media and within the local community.

Perla Morales-Luna, 36, was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Saturday near 24th and D streets in National City.

Video obtained by NBC 7 showed two men in plain clothing and a uniformed U.S. Border Patrol agent taking Morales-Luna into custody and placing her in the back of a CBP patrol vehicle.

In the video, Morales-Luna’s three daughters can be heard sobbing and calling for “mom” as she was taken into custody.

National City Councilmember Alejandra Sotelo-Solis said she was alerted to the incident through social media comments and tags. When she heard the daughters’ screams she said she felt “sad” and “infuriated.”

“This is actually one of our quarters where we have mass transit, so to have something like this go down, in the broad daylight, it really is concerning,” Sotelo-Solis said.

“What was posted I think really showed the inhumane treatment of that woman being physically ripped from her children and then leaving the minor children here on the street not knowing what to do,” Sotelo-Solis said.

CBP said Morales-Luna was arrested for being in the country illegally. Agent Michael J. Scappechio said Morales-Luna has been arrested previously but would not confirm the charge.

Scappechio said Morales-Luna was identified as part of a “criminal smuggling organization” in East County.

The woman was arrested for being the organizer of a transnational human smuggling organization, as well as her being here illegally.

But from the way you hear these officials and teachers in the video talking about how the woman was treated without dignity and being ripped away from her children, you’d think the police beat her in the street and physically dragged her to jail or something.

But it appears to me they just arrested her normally on the street. The reason they were in plain clothes is because she’s an illegal in California so they more than likely have to be undercover in order to keep these illegals from running to the authorities in California for protection.

As I said, I don’t get the outrage. Arrests like this aren’t fun things to witness and are certainly dramatic. But it looks like a good arrest to me where no one was hurt. People really need to grow up.


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