Oh my gosh, that's a terrible thing to happen to you. One big advantage we had was that we homeschooled. DHS usually tracks family through the school system. If we'd enrolled our children in a school they would have been all over us the next day (I've actually seen this with both them and INS.) Also they were handicapped because they were used to interviewing the children at the school before the parents found out anything.
We tried to talk to the FBI. We were warned that the local office was "compromised", but we never got a chance to find out firsthand since whenever we called we got an answering machine and they never returned our calls. Our attempts to talk to other offices only referred us back to the local office. Very frustrating.
One of the things we found out along the way was that we weren't the first recipient of these people's attention. There were other stories, some with far worse consequences than we endured. Turning the other cheek would entail taking our eyes off them, and that's not a good idea.
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regna
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Date: 2011-03-07 09:46 pm (UTC)We tried to talk to the FBI. We were warned that the local office was "compromised", but we never got a chance to find out firsthand since whenever we called we got an answering machine and they never returned our calls. Our attempts to talk to other offices only referred us back to the local office. Very frustrating.
One of the things we found out along the way was that we weren't the first recipient of these people's attention. There were other stories, some with far worse consequences than we endured. Turning the other cheek would entail taking our eyes off them, and that's not a good idea.