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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
My thought, though, is that IF the mission of the lawyers is to reunite the families (whether that's right or wrong), all of the objections are simply elongating the process and that flies in the face of what they're supposed to be trying to do.
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They are not supposed to be trying to reunite the children with their families necessarily. Each lawyer is supposed to be representing and advocating for the child he or she represents and seeking to have done what is in that child's best interest. Whether or not that is reunification with family or something else may be different for different children.
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I don't believe there were any Feds involved, swooping or otherwise. All the reports I have seen refer only to Texas law enforcement and Child Protective Services investigators participating in the raid.
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Originally Posted by madmax
That's not the point. Since when does an anonymous call give the local, state, feds or any law agency the authority to search your house and take your kids?
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It is the point when this is what I responding to:
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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
Whether this group was wrong or right, why did the Feds swoop in?
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But as for your question, as Kevin said, anonymous calls lead to searches all the time.
But to clarify, the anonymous call, coupled with other information that law enforcement had been receiving, led to law enforcement and CPS investigors coming into the compound. What the CPS investigators found once they were in the compound and could investigate led to taking the chilcred into custody.