{"id":24315,"date":"2021-03-25T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24315"},"modified":"2021-03-25T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:39:22","slug":"unaccompanied-minors-parents-illegal-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/03\/25\/unaccompanied-minors-parents-illegal-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental Guidance Pulls Unaccompanied Minors Into U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019re looking for reasons why so many unaccompanied minors<\/a> are crossing America\u2019s southern border, look to their parents who are already here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In earlier waves of arrivals, 60 percent of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) were handed over to parents illegally residing in the United States. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen<\/a>, in the Southern District of Texas, wrote of several instances in which parents \u201cinitiated the conspiracy to smuggle minors into the country illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn\neach case, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) completed the criminal\nconspiracy, instead of enforcing the laws of the United States, by delivering\nthe minors into the custody of the parent living illegally in the United\nStates,\u201d Hanen stated in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a UAC surge in 2017, then-DHS Secretary John Kelly<\/a> wrote: \u201cTragically, many of these children fall victim to robbery, extortion, kidnapping, sexual assault and other crimes of violence by smugglers and other criminal elements along the dangerous journey through Mexico to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though\nKelly called for \u201cproper enforcement of our immigration laws,\u201d rules governing Department\nof Health and Human Services (HHS) placements of unaccompanied minors can frustrate\nthat objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact that most UACs are released to their parents, and that Congress has blocked HHS from sharing information about sponsors with DHS for removal purposes, suggests that loopholes in lax immigration laws are encouraging parents illegally in the United States to pay smugglers to bring their children to this country,\u201d says Andrew Arthur at the Center for Immigration Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presence of those parents in the U.S. undermines the claims of fear for their children who remained abroad. \u201cIt is difficult to conceive of a scenario in which parents would willfully abandon children in a perilous situation in order to escape to safety themselves,\u201d notes Arthur. Yet the standard media narrative<\/a> is a dewy-eyed tale of family reunions, with no reference to parents\u2019 immigration status or their role in getting their charges here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UAC flows will surely persist as long as illegal aliens in the U.S. can continue to pull progeny north without fear of their own removal. \u201cI am unaware of any parent [being]prosecuted for paying a smuggler to bring his or her child illegally to this country,\u201d Arthur reported this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re looking for reasons why so many unaccompanied minors are crossing America\u2019s southern border, look to their parents who are already here. In earlier waves of arrivals, 60 percent of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) were handed over to parents illegally residing in the United States. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, in the Southern District of<\/p>\n

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