Why are these “children” here? Have they no parents? Where and how did they get here? How many miles did they traverse and from what country? What parent would allow these “children” to do this unaccompanied? Never let real “journalism” get in the way of the agenda AP.
“Why are these “children” here? Have they no parents?”
It is a mix of reasons, that makes it harder to sort out.
Some lie about their age to get through, some are used as props to get unrelated adults through. Some are the actual cargo of human traffickers, who put them into slave-like work conditions or prostitution, or use them as drug mules.
Also, courts have ordered that you can’t keep kids in detention, so if you can’t deport, you have to either separate the kids, or release the adults.
As these loopholes have been created and advertised (Obama’s biggest accomplishment), the number of children in the illegal immigrant flow has skyrocketed - unaccompanied, accompanied by their parents, or accompanied by other than parents (increasingly pretending to be parents).
We need to get a counter-narrative out there, about how immigrant children are being exploited by unscrupulous adults - gangs, drug cartels, pedophiles and Democrats.