Posted on 03/02/2018 6:13:24 AM PST by Brilliant
When 10 Central Americans illegally crossed the Rio Grande into Texas recently, they immediately went looking for the U.S. Border Patrol, hoping their tales of fleeing gang violence back home would earn them asylum.
This is your daughter? an agent asked José Alfaro, 42, a street vendor from El Salvador, who said he came to the U.S. with his 3-year-old girl after gang members tried to kill him for the third time.
Yes, Mr. Alfaro murmured.
When was she born? What date?
Mr. Alfaro hesitated.
Shes your daughter but you dont know when she was born? the agent asked.
Since 2014, more than 260,000 immigrants traveling as families have been caught crossing the Mexican border illegally, though the numbers are much lower today than they were at peak periods in 2014 and 2016.
Trump administration officials say U.S. law encourages people to come with children because families are often released into the U.S. while their immigration cases are being considered in courts. Advocates say these families only make the dangerous trip because of gang violence at home...
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Yes, those right-wing junta governments weren't ruling according to Carter's rules of order because the leftists were perpetuating "gang violence" to intimidate the local populace into either supporting them outright or at least keeping quiet, similar to the ACORN plan which ObaMao had for the USA.
But they weren't exporting refugees in massive numbers either.
If we don’t break the back of our enemies in this country, in 7 years (God willing another Trump win in 2020) the cesspool Cretans will be back up on top dismantling all the progress we have made and flushing us down the toilet once again
I am white. I have crossed the border into the US with my daughter when she was a pre-teen. The officers asked HER these questions:
Is this your Dad?
Do you live with your Dad or your Mom?
They asked these questions to ascertain if I was engaging in human smuggling or if I was kidnapping her. I APPRECIATED the level of concern and investigation that was shown at the border by US officials.
Sounds like Trump is continuing Obama’s “catch and release”.
The only thing Border Patrol should be saying to these people is “turn around and go back or you will be shot”.
A lot of these people claim their lives are endangered back home, yet once granted asylum, where do you think they go on vacation? Turn them away at the border, period.
They can't, they are not Mexican citizens and Mexico will not take them back.
Not knowing a child’s birthday proves nothing.
Hell, half the time my husband can’t even remember our daughter’s name let alone her birthday.
Then Mexico can incarcerate them or toss them back over their southern border.
We’ve done some mission work in the Dominican Republic. In the poorer communities, there are many who do not know the birth dates or even the birth year of their children. Makes it difficult to get a birth certificate, which is required if the child is to attend school.
They have been instructed to say that and/or that their husband beats them as a free ticket to asylum. No gangs or wife beaters in the USA I guess.
Sort of an obvious question, isn’t it?
I’ve been asked that at the Canadian border numerous times, and I was born in Ohio.
This scam has been true of Border Patrol for many decades. Back in the 60s and 70s the same people who rent valid IDs to get people across the bridge also rent little kids to get people from the border towns to the interior as Border Patrol agents are often on the highway 30 miles north of the border. This is not anything new.
Then stop them AT the border before they enter the USA.
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