Posted on 10/23/2020 8:00:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
The government hasn’t “lost track” of migrant children's parents. The fact is, some parents don’t want their children back in their country of origin.
On Thursday night when Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden angrily accused President Trump of a “criminal” family separation policy that had “lost track” of more than 500 migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border, he was repeating an inaccurate and misleading news report that had circulated earlier this week.
“What happened? Their kids were ripped from their arms and separated and now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents and those kids are alone,” Biden said. “Nowhere to go, nowhere to go. It’s criminal.”
The former vice president was likely relying on a brief report from NPR about the latest development in a lawsuit between the ACLU and the Justice Department regarding the status of children who have still not been reunited with their parents after being brought across the border illegally.
The report claims that “the parents of 545 children still can’t be found,” but that’s not quite right. The NPR report omitted a statement issued by Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Chase Jennings explaining that in fact the vast majority of these parents have been found but have refused reunification with their children, which is why the children are still in DHS custody.
“In the current litigation, for example, out of the parents of 485 children whom Plaintiffs’ counsel has been able to contact, they’ve yet to identify a single family that wants their child reunited with them in their country of origin,” Jennings said.
This narrative has been dispelled. In the current litigation, for example, out of the parents of 485 children whom Plaintiffs’ counsel has been able to contact, they've yet to identify a single family that wants their child reunited with them in their country of origin. https://t.co/mZ9DYWWXwP
— Chase Jennings (@SpoxDHS) October 21, 2020
Why would these parents refuse to be reunited with their children? Because their children are in the United States, and they are in their country of origin, most likely Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador. They don’t want their children to go back there, they want them in the United States. Many of these parents paid exorbitant amounts of money to get their children smuggled into the U.S., sometimes with adults posing as parents, sometimes unaccompanied and with a larger group of migrants. The whole point was to get their kids into the U.S. by any means necessary, even if it meant being separated.
Indeed, that’s often how “unaccompanied minors” show up on the border; their parents pay smugglers, called “coyotes,” to bring them across illegally, between the legal ports of entry, as part of an agreement with the cartel that controls a particular stretch of the border.
Trump made an allusion to this Thursday night in his response to Biden, referencing coyotes and human smuggling by cartels. The term provoked an embarrassing display of outrage on Twitter from left-wing activists like Jemele Hill and David Hogg and many others who appeared to be completely ignorant of the term—indeed, wholly ignorant of the reality of human smuggling at the border—and thought Trump was using “coyote” as some kind of racial epithet for the parents.
ok, so a big takeaway from the evening is that there are apparently a lot of people who feel passionately about immigration but also have no idea about human trafficking at the border. pic.twitter.com/EFY45EeoLR
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 23, 2020
What these left-wing activists and former Vice President Biden have in common is an apparent belief that the border is a simple place and that family reunification a simple task.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Human smuggling happens on an industrial scale along the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars each year for smugglers, corrupt Mexican officials, and drug cartels, which charge a per-person “tax” for every man, woman, and child who crosses the Rio Grande in an area under their jurisdiction.
At the height of the migrant crisis in 2019, the number of family units being apprehended at the border was at an all-time high. Smugglers—coyotes—would bring across large groups, sometimes as many as a thousand people at once, and tell them to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol claiming asylum. Nothing like this had ever happened before, certainly not on this scale.
When it came to processing these large groups of migrants, many of whom arrived suffering from dehydration and other medical problems after days in the desert, U.S. border officials faced the difficult task of trying to ascertain which adults were actually parents, which were relatives claiming to be parent, and which were unrelated adults posing as parents of children they didn’t know.
Why would adults pose as parents? Because family units are treated differently at the border than single adults, namely, family units are typically held for a short time and then released with orders to appear before an immigration judge at some future date. The Trump administration pursued a disastrous family separation policy for a short time in 2018, which automatically separated all family units caught crossing the border illegally and resulted in some parents being deported to their countries of origin while their children remained in the U.S.
Today, many of those parents simply don’t want their children to return to those countries, where violence and poverty are rampant.
Should the Trump administration have separated families? No. But there’s more to the story than that, and Biden, along with outraged left-wing activists, should take the time to learn about human smuggling at the border and the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure their kids grow up in the United States—even if it means refusing to reunite with them back home.
For your interest.
Any real parent would not have left the vicinity of where their child was.
Trump missed a good talking point last night. He should have brought out that DNA tests showed that 30% or so of the children did not belong to the “parents” that brought them in.
And these people vote. Scary thought.
She represents an area that sends Hank Johnson to congress
You said it.
Should the Trump administration have separated families? No. But there’s more to the story than that, and Biden, along with outraged left-wing activists, should take the time to learn about human smuggling at the border and the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure their kids grow up in the United States—even if it means refusing to reunite with them back home.
I’ve often heard, that the coyotes have used children, to game the system. They use children who aren’t their own children, children who have already been separated from their parents.
A big unanswered question to me, is where are the parents? Are they seeking to be reunited with their children who are allegedly lost in American somewhere????
This is a good example of how the liberals grossly oversimplify a complex issue. And naturally, all blame for the problem is placed on Trump by the liberals.
Moms tend to notice if their child is missing.
Mom and child share the same mitichondral DNA.
If there is no mom, dad and child can also be marched up by methods Hunter Biden has become aware of and Joe should know of too.
The kids were rightfully separated from the adults until it could be verified they were actually their parents, for the children safety. They were doing DNA tests in some places and found that many were not related.
If you think about it we are actually doing them a favor by NOT allowing them into our country illegally. Remember all the diseases that were coming into the country? Diseases we had eradicated decades ago were cropping up all around the southwest. Not a coincidence IMO.
Obama was the Presidental candidate that felt children were punishment.
Who built the cages, Joe?
Take them back and dump them on their parent’s doorstep.
Sit and wait until the parents take them in or the kid starves.
Julius Caesar did something like this at Alesia.
I thank her for the Friday smile.
And here’s the link where you can still see it: https://twitter.com/DarshunKendrick/status/1319459569073008641
Yeah I noticed that
I thought what parents ??? They werent there to start with...
Who built the cages Joe ???
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