Grandparents Concepcion and Margarito Silva went to Fort Drum near the Canadian border to bid farewell to their son-in-law who is leaving for a third tour in Afghanistan when somebody called Border Patrol. They were apprehended, on the 4th of July no less, and taken to a federal detention facility in Buffalo. Splinter:
The couple’s son-in-law is a sergeant in the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division. According to the family, the Department of Defense won’t let him intervene in the case.
“Most worrying is the fact that both parents have recently undergone surgery and need medication,” the report said. “The Silvas say they have gotten calls from their mother, who said she was denied her medication. They say they have not heard from their father.”
“We don’t know what could happen to them in there,” Dulce Silva, a daughter of the detained couple, told NBC. “It would be crazy if they didn’t make it out of there.”
Apparently the military is now the intermediary for ICE. Last month a pizza delivery man was apprehended at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn.
