{"id":23824,"date":"2020-11-02T12:33:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23824"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:33:59","slug":"children-rescued-at-border-media-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/11\/02\/children-rescued-at-border-media-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandonment Issues Haunt Children at the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While questions concerning the whereabouts of parents of 545 unaccompanied migrant children grabbed headlines<\/a> last month, the rescue of a dozen minors abandoned at the border went virtually unnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Border Patrol<\/a> agents near Hidalgo, Texas, located the children, including a 7-month-old traveling with his teenage brother, on the night of Oct. 24. The children were discovered when officers encountered a group of illegal aliens shortly after a human smuggler rafted them across the Rio Grande. A majority of the group were unaccompanied minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officers interviewed a\n13-year-old Honduran national, who was carrying the infant, and determined that\ntheir mother abandoned them three weeks prior to their entry into the United\nStates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texas episode highlights\nthe ongoing problems created by parents who hand their children over to coyotes\nto get youngsters across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a> (CBP) apprehended 30,557 unaccompanied minors (ages 0-17) at the southern border during Fiscal Year 2020. Though that\u2019s roughly half of last year\u2019s volume, the number of unaccompanied Mexican minors increased to 14,359, the highest since 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven with the spread of the\nCOVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero\nregard for the lives they endanger,\u201d CBP stated. The agency could have included\nthe absentee parents in its indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the media played up a lawsuit<\/a> claiming that 545 parents of children separated from them at the border could not be located, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed a fresh set of numbers and facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOut of the parents of 485\nchildren whom plaintiffs\u2019 counsel has been able to contact, they\u2019ve yet to\nidentify a single family that wants their child reunited with them in their\ncountry of origin,\u201d DHS said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAIR<\/a> suggested that the parents willingly and strategically separated from their children. The Center for Immigration Studies<\/a> (CIS) offered two motivations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. To have their children\nlive in the relative comfort, safety and affluence of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The possibility that, if\ntheir children are allowed to remain here, those parents will be able to join\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s one crucial\nunanswered question: How many of the separated parents have been deported? \u201cThe\ncloser that number gets to zero, the likelier it is that they don’t want to be\nlocated \u2014 by DHS, [Health and Human Services], or anyone else. Because, if they\nare, they run the risk of being removed,\u201d CIS observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even one separated or abandoned child is one too many. To report responsibly on this troublesome issue, America\u2019s media must dig deeper, and not lose sight of the fact that the problems begin beyond America\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While questions concerning the whereabouts of parents of 545 unaccompanied migrant children grabbed headlines last month, the rescue of a dozen minors abandoned at the border went virtually unnoticed. U.S. Border Patrol agents near Hidalgo, Texas, located the children, including a 7-month-old traveling with his teenage brother, on the night of Oct. 24. The children<\/p>\n

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