DHS Complicit in Cartel Human Trafficking of Minors to Illegals Living in the United States

According to a court order obtained by Townhall, the Department of Homeland Security is enabling cartel trafficking of minors, delivering those minors to illegals living inside the United States and completing criminal transactions for illegal immigrants.

The order, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on December 13, details a guilty plea from Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez for attempting to smuggle a 10-year-old El Salvadorean female into the United States. Nava-Martinez was being paid to smuggle the child from Matamoros to Virgina, but was caught at a Brownsville checkpoint. The order describes Nava-Martinez as a resident alien living in the United States while traveling back and forth to Mexico. This charge is her second felony offense in the U.S. in the past three years. She committed food stamp fraud in 2011.

Nava-Martinez was hired by Patricia Elizabeth Salmeron Santos, the mother of the 10-year-old who was smuggled. Salmeron-Santos is also living illegally in Virginia after being denied legal entry into the U.S. in 2001.

"Salmeron Santos admitted that she started this conspiracy by hiring alien smugglers to transfer her child from El Salvador to Virginia. She agreed to pay $8500 (and actually paid $6,000 in advance) for these human traffickers to smuggle her daughter). The criminal conspiracy instigated by Salmeron Santos was temporarily interrupted when Nava-Martinez was arrested," the order, written by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, states. "Despite this setback, the goal of the conspiracy was successfully completed thanks to the United States Government. This Court is quite concerned with the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security completing the criminal mission of individuals who are violating the border security of the United States.”

Essentially, illegal immigrants living in the United States are paying human traffickers connected to Mexican cartels to smuggle their children into the U.S. Although Nava-Martinez [the smuggler] was arrested and charged, the minor was delivered to her mother living illegally in Virginia by DHS, automatically making the minor eligible for the President Obama's DREAMers program. Further Salmeron-Santos, who illegally hired a human trafficker to smuggle her daughter across an international border, isn’t facing charges.

“The DHS officials were notified that Salmeron-Santos instigated this illegal conduct. Yet, instead of arresting Salmeron-Santos for instigating the conspiracy to violate our border security laws, the DHS delivers the child to her -- thus successfully completing the mission of the criminal conspiracy. It did not arrest her. It did not prosecute her. It did not even initiate deportation proceedings for her. This DHS policy is a dangerous course of action,” Judge Hanen wrote.

The order accuses DHS of encouraging parents to “seriously jeopardize the safety of their children,” and states DHS policy enables violent drug cartels, undermines efforts to deter criminal activity or further violations and lowers the morale of law enforcement agents working to enforce the law on the border.

“In the last year, this Court has seen instances where aliens being smuggled were assaulted, raped, kidnapped and or killed. Time and again this Court has been told by representatives of the Government and the defense that cartels control the entire smuggling process. These entities are not known for their concern for human life....The Government is not only allowing them to fund the illegal and evil activities of these cartels, but is also inspiring them to do so,” the order states. “These men and women [law enforcement], with no small risk to their own safety, do their best to enforce our laws and protect the citizens of the United States. It seems shameful that some policymaker in their agency institutes a course of inaction that negated their efforts. It has to be frustrating to those that are actually doing the work of protecting Americans when those efforts are thwarted by a policy that supports lawmakers.”

Border Patrol and ICE agents have increasingly expressed frustration toward DHS policies that do not allow them to enforce immigration law. ICE Council President Chris Crane has repeatedly stressed the risk agents Americans face when laws are not upheld.

“The DHS policy is as logical as taking illegal drugs or weapons that it has seized from smugglers and delivering them to the criminals who initially solicited their illegal importation/exportation,” Judge Hanen concluded. “DHS should enforce the laws of the United States -- not break them.”

What do you call a nation that won't/cannot control its borders, that has no control over the integrity of its vote or its finances, that disables the checks and balances placed upon those it elects to power, corrupting its legal system, that disregards and undermines the principles and definitions that bond its citizens together under a unifying national identity?

I'm not sure what that's called, but "Going out of business" or "Under new ownership" sounds about right.

Witness the stunning accomplishments of the one know as "Obama"!

He, Reid, Pelosi, Boehner, McConnell and all the rest in the shadows behind them laugh at the naysayers who said it couldn't be done and the USA couldn't be beaten.

Behold the Progressive's triumphant transformation as that which once defined US is diluted, as we are parted out industry by industry, company by company and slowly dissolve into history.

Have we had enough yet or do we need to dissolve a bit more?

We'll just have to wait and see. Happy 2014!

Yes, a sad day that we have lived to see. When I was a kid I would never have believed our nation would wind up like this. Now, looking back, it’s easy to see that the seed of our destruction were really sown through out the entire 20th Century. Now the flower is in full bloom and soon the fruit will yield its poisonous nectar - the chains of slavery, death and destruction. America, America, God shed his grace on thee - but you wanted nothing to do with him. Happy are the people who’s God is the Lord - but that is no longer the USA. Is there any better Bible passage than Rom. 1:21 - 32 to describe our nation? It comes pretty close. God seems to punish sin by allowing you to go deeper and deeper into it until it totally destroys your life. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they obecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 pClaiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and qexchanged the glory of rthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore sGod gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to tthe dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for ua lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, vwho is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason wGod gave them up to xdishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, ymen committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, zGod gave them up to aa debased mind to do bwhat ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know cGod’s righteous decree that those who practice such things ddeserve to die, they not only do them but egive approval to those who practice them.

America began the descent into Sodom and Gomorrah in 1913 and that fall moved our nation steadily downward every year since. We’re now in free fall thanks to the Democrats and their Republicrat confederates.

Who in their right mind would think that we would be saddled with the most miserable administration in our history where the feel fall at this juncture is straight down? This cretin occupying the White Hut is beyond a doubt the most evil and corrupt individual to ever head a nation. He’s even as bad as Stalin and Mao as he’s just getting warmed up.

Every day this phony, mystery asshat is in power is a danger to America.

With a brief respite during the Reagan years our pitiful nation has been going to the dogs. It all began in 1913 and where it will end is guaranteed to make us vomit.

Speaking of vomit, the Democrat party puked up a bagful and threw it through the front door of the White Hut to sit behind that antique desk in the oval orifice.

What an utter waste of reproductive tissue!

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