{"id":11212,"date":"2015-12-16T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:52:16","slug":"deja-vu-unaccompanied-minor-crisis-resurges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/12\/16\/deja-vu-unaccompanied-minor-crisis-resurges\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu: Unaccompanied Minor Crisis Resurges"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Obama administration claimed it had solved the unaccompanied minor crisis that surged in 2014 by falsely proclaiming that the illegal entrants would be sent back home and setting up a program to allow the legal arrival of minors from Central Americans who had parents illegally residing in the United States. This waiver program is like the DACA amnesty for persons brought illegally to the United States as youth \u2013 except this expansion includes those minors still living in Central America.<\/p>\n

But a new surge of unaccompanied minors and families with children has again emerged.\u00a0According to December 9 Washington Times<\/i> report<\/a>, \u201cEmergency measures imposed as border surge surprises, overwhelms immigration officials,\u201d apprehension of minors in October and November was more than double the level a year earlier. And, it was 73 percent higher for families. The WT says, \u201cTwo months into the new fiscal year, the number of unaccompanied minors jumping the border and getting caught is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n

\"Data<\/a>

Data for chart here: 2011 \u2013 8000, 2012 \u2013 13625, 2013 \u2013 24668, 2014 \u2013 57496.<\/p><\/div>\n

Statements by the arriving illegal aliens asserting that they came \u2013 and often turned themselves in to the Border Patrol \u2013 to get \u201cpermisos<\/i>\u201d (permits) to stay in the U.S. make clear that the administration\u2019s policy of reuniting these new illegal aliens with their family members residing illegally in the U.S. has been a powerful \u201cpull\u201d factor that provoked this surge. It is obvious from the new data that the false statements by the administration about speedy deportation of the new illegal arrivals is seen by them as posturing rather than any real commitment to deal with the problem.