{"id":22357,"date":"2020-01-02T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T21:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22357"},"modified":"2020-01-02T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T21:59:04","slug":"gangs-ms-13-congress-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/01\/02\/gangs-ms-13-congress-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"How Congress Helps Central American Gangs Recruit in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bipartisan legislation<\/a> on Capitol Hill that includes a provision that blocks immigration officials from deporting anyone considered a “sponsor, potential sponsor or member of a household of a sponsor” of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs), would further enable illegal and deadly smuggling operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing a gaping loophole in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act<\/a> would be much sounder policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis [loophole]has created a toll-free superhighway for MS-13<\/a>, 18th Street and other gangs to move new foot soldiers in to boost gang activity,\u201d observes Jessica Vaughn<\/a> of the Center for Immigration Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fostering the influx of gang recruits from Central America, the\nWilberforce Trafficking Act of 2008 stipulates that all minors from\nnon-contiguous countries caught at the U.S. border without parents must be\nturned over to the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Refugee\nResettlement and then moved into U.S. communities and schools. Thus, a law\ndesigned to protect sex-trafficking victims who are truly destitute and without\nparents in this country is creating a gaping loophole under which illegal\naliens pay criminal cartels to smuggle in their own children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(According to data from the Senate Homeland Security Committee<\/a>, fewer than 10 percent of people sponsoring the Central American teens resettled under the UAC program have full legal status themselves.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An even more dangerous unintended feature of the Wilberforce Act\nis that has created an avenue for violent gangs to further infiltrate American\ncommunities. \u201cU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has estimated that 40\npercent of the MS-13 members they\u2019ve arrested in recent years arrived as UACs,\u201d\nVaughn reports. \u201cThese delinquents are literally terrorizing communities, but\ninstead of empowering ICE to arrest and remove more of them, Congress has made\nit harder for ICE by blocking access to information on the minors\u2019 sponsors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, Judge Andrew Hanen<\/a> of the Southern District of Texas called out the Obama administration for \u201csuccessfully complet[ing]\u201d the \u201cgoal of the conspiracy\u201d of drug smugglers to smuggle people over the border on behalf of parents \u201cat significant expense\u201d to taxpayers. Washington did nothing, and things have only gotten worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Congress\nwants to handcuff ICE by placing a protective shield over trafficking\noperations. Meantime, MS-13 and other gangs wreak havoc from coast to coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, six MS-13 homicide suspects<\/a> arrested in Maryland were found to be in the country illegally. Last July, federal authorities charged 22 members of the gang with committing a series of \u201cmedieval-style\u201d murders<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE removed 1,332 criminal MS-13 members<\/a> from the country in 2018, a 24 percent increase over the previous year. Congress should be enacting laws that serve to increase those numbers \u2013 not bogus amnesties that make America less safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bipartisan legislation on Capitol Hill that includes a provision that blocks immigration officials from deporting anyone considered a “sponsor, potential sponsor or member of a household of a sponsor” of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs), would further enable illegal and deadly smuggling operations. Closing a gaping loophole in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act would<\/p>\n

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