Footage has captured the agony of a young mother trying to decide how best to protect her children just before Hurricane Florence made landfall on Friday.
Iris lives in Wilmington, North Carolina with her three children, and was in tears on Thursday when asked by NBC News what she was planning to do when the storm hit.
She and her family had been told to evacuate by officials, but she was unsure where to go given that she is an undocumented immigrant and her children were terrified that they would be separated by ICE if they checked into a shelter.
'The little one asked me, "Mom, I am very afraid that our home is going to be destroyed, and I don't want to go to a shelter because I don't want to be separated from you,"' said Iris.
The girl later told her mother: 'I'd rather die first than be separated from you.'
Gut-wrenching: Iris (above) is a mother-of-three and undocumented immigrant living in a mandatory evacuation zone near Wilmington, North Carolina
Cover: She was afraid to go to a public shelter (one above in South Carolina on Friday) believing that ICE would be there and arrest her, separate her children and then deport the family
ICE had stated that it would not arrest people seeking shelter during Florence earlier in the week, but a number of immigrants do not trust that statement.
That fear dates back to Hurricane Harvey, with reports emerging weeks after the storm that ICE officials who had been helping to rebuild after the storm in Texas later returned to arrest undocumented persons they had come across during their efforts.
'My worry was when someone said, "If you go to shelters, you have to be careful," someone told me they weren't accepting people who were undocumented,' said Iris, who pain was clear in her face.
'But if they went, they would run the risk of being taken [from] there, and I didn't want to run the risk with my kids.'
Her interview, during which a translator was present to interpret her remarks, took place at the same time that a volunteer had come by to try and convince Iris to go to the shelter.
That volunteer eventually managed to convince Iris to seek shelter.
'It makes me feel better to know that that's not going to happen,' said the mother.
'I'm sure you are parents as well, and you can just imagine how that would feel if that was to happen.'
Damage: Her daughter had told her she feared their home would be destroyed, but would rather face death at home than possible separation (a tree on a nearby home in Wilmington)
ICE said in a statement that they will not enforce arrests in hurricane areas at this time, though it is unclear if interactions with individuals and ICE officials could lead to arrests down the road as reportedly happened during Hurricane Harvey.
'Our highest priority remains the preservation of life and safety,' the department said in a statement.
'In consideration of these circumstances, there will be no immigration enforcement initiatives associated with evacuations or sheltering related to Florence, except in the event of a serious public safety threat.'
Link hienalouca.com
https://hienalouca.com/2018/09/15/immigrant-mother-in-tears-over-fears-that-ice-will-arrest-her-is-she-goes-to-hurricane-shelter/
Main photo article Footage has captured the agony of a young mother trying to decide how best to protect her children just before Hurricane Florence made landfall on Friday.
Iris lives in Wilmington, North Carolina with her three children, and was in tears on Thursday when asked by NBC News what she was planning ...
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