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‘This Is Your Daughter? When Was She Born?’ U.S. Border Agents Test Migrants’ Claims of Family Ties
WSJ ^ | 3/2/18 | Laura Meckler, Alicia A. Caldwell and

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.

“She’s your daughter but you don’t 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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: immigration; trump; wall
Does it really matter whether US law allows these people in? The "resistance" won't obey the US immigration law. Why doesn't Trump just tell the border patrol to turn these people away?
1 posted on 03/02/2018 6:13:24 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
All this "gang violence", particularly in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, is a legacy of the Carter and Clinton administrations who didn't like what they considered "right-wing" governments which used to rule those countries.

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.

2 posted on 03/02/2018 6:29:34 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Brilliant

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


3 posted on 03/02/2018 6:36:25 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Brilliant
BOO HOO.

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.

4 posted on 03/02/2018 7:09:19 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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To: Brilliant

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”.


5 posted on 03/02/2018 7:09:25 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q-Tards and Laugh!)
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To: Brilliant

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.


6 posted on 03/02/2018 7:16:53 AM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
The part that these sorts of BS stories from the leftist media leave out is that somewhere around half or so of our Border Patrol agents are of latin American descent. All Border Patrol agents are required to know or learn Spanish when they come in, and being from a Spanish-speaking background is an advantage. Additionally, new agents are required to do time on the southern border before they can get that cushy northern border post.

If the original story were written with any truth, it would look like this:

“Esta es su hija?” agent Ramirez 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. “Si,” Mr. Alfaro murmured. “Cuando nacio ella? Cual fecha?” asked Ramirez.


7 posted on 03/02/2018 7:18:05 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: Brilliant
Why doesn't Trump just tell the border patrol to turn these people away?

They can't, they are not Mexican citizens and Mexico will not take them back.

8 posted on 03/02/2018 7:21:56 AM PST by usurper ( version)
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To: Brilliant

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.


9 posted on 03/02/2018 7:22:25 AM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: usurper
Mexico will not take them back.

Then Mexico can incarcerate them or toss them back over their southern border.

10 posted on 03/02/2018 8:12:13 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Califreak

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.


11 posted on 03/02/2018 8:16:50 AM PST by knittnmom
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To: Brilliant
hoping their tales of fleeing gang violence back home would earn them asylum

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.

12 posted on 03/02/2018 8:20:34 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Brilliant

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.


13 posted on 03/02/2018 8:37:28 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Brilliant

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.


14 posted on 03/02/2018 8:46:52 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: usurper
"They can't, they are not Mexican citizens and Mexico will not take them back."

Then stop them AT the border before they enter the USA.

15 posted on 03/02/2018 8:51:59 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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