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Hundreds of Toddlers Said to Be Taken Into Custody at the Border
Fusion ^ | Friday, June 20, 2014 | Ted Hesson and Jordan Fabian

Posted on 06/20/2014 2:25:38 PM PDT by kristinn

Hundreds of infants and toddlers ages 2 years or younger have allegedly been apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol while crossing the border illegally without a parent or guardian in the past year.

From October 1, 2013 to June 11, Border Patrol detained 378 unaccompanied children ages two or younger, according to data obtained by Fusion from the office of a high-ranking Democratic senator. Of those children, 95 were infants under 1 year old.

Fusion tried multiple times by phone and in writing to confirm the reports with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security, but no official would comment specifically, and instead referred to a previous statement. The Department of Health and Human Services, charged with the care of unaccompanied minors caught at the border, did not respond to a request for comment.

Omar Zamora, a spokesperson for the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector, limited his comment to: “We are receiving children of all ages.”

Official data from last year shows that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement logged 27 deportations of children under the age of two, suggesting the federal government has processed infants in the past.

Emily Butera, a senior program officer at the Women's Refugee Commission, said she has seen unaccompanied babies in the shelter system in past years, but that the problem is getting worse. She said the youngest kids are sometimes sent across the border with older siblings, or with paid smugglers.

Butera said the average age of an unaccompanied child migrant is now 14 years old, younger than in previous years. “And we’re seeing more babies and toddlers than we had in the past,” she said.

The phenomenon puts an exclamation point on the greater immigration crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border. Roughly 52,000 unaccompanied minors have been apprehended at the...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; childillegals; illegals; illegalsinvasion; immigration; usbp
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1 posted on 06/20/2014 2:25:38 PM PDT by kristinn
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2 posted on 06/20/2014 2:27:31 PM PDT by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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The should all be dropped off outside the fence that surrounds the White House


3 posted on 06/20/2014 2:28:00 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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Does 40,000 innocent children brought to the US/Mexico Border due to illegal promises and illegal Executive “Dreamer” Orders from Obama qualify Obama to be placed on the US State Department’s Blacklist for Human Trafficking?


4 posted on 06/20/2014 2:28:05 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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This is evil, just plain evil


5 posted on 06/20/2014 2:28:15 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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Sorry. Put them in an orphanage in Mexico.


6 posted on 06/20/2014 2:29:04 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
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Send them all back.

Every last one of them.

No more of this.


7 posted on 06/20/2014 2:29:45 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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They were put there by the uber corrupt Gobierno Mexicano.
Hah, and Central America calls Mexico the "giant of the North."
THAT'S what Mexico calls US.
8 posted on 06/20/2014 2:30:04 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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Toddlers? Infants? Who is bringing them here? They can’t find a toilet much less international borders in the desert. This is criminal. Whoever is responsible should be executed..................


9 posted on 06/20/2014 2:31:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,735 threads and 84,728 replies, as of 06-20-2014)
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Will they be sent back? How? Or, put up for adoption? Placed in foster homes?

Or....will 0 immediately send for their *families*?


10 posted on 06/20/2014 2:31:18 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: South40

The Land of Abortion Welcomes You


11 posted on 06/20/2014 2:31:24 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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Define “unaccompanied.”


12 posted on 06/20/2014 2:31:32 PM PDT by petitfour
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Obama the community organizer...organizing illegals to take over America! FUBO!!!


13 posted on 06/20/2014 2:33:11 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Border Patrol reduced to diaper brigades for Daddy Day Care —


14 posted on 06/20/2014 2:34:32 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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Really??? Toddlers and infants are walking hundreds of miles to get to the border? This is plain BS.

They are being dumped across the border like stray cats and dogs by adults who plan on using them as their ticket to ride on the wheezing welfare gravy train for the rest of their lives.

In a couple of years, their large extended families will be able to join them. It’s the “family reunification” farce that the Mexicans, Somalis, and Haitians have been cashing in on for generations.


15 posted on 06/20/2014 2:37:42 PM PDT by txrefugee
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The Abortion President Welcomes You


16 posted on 06/20/2014 2:43:36 PM PDT by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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To: txrefugee

BINGO!

Any ‘parent’ who shows up on the US side to claim any child under the age of 14 left on the bank to fend for themselves should be prosecuted for felony child endangerment - under the laws of their respective countries.


17 posted on 06/20/2014 2:54:05 PM PDT by blueplum
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Are my children stupid? Do I need to get them tested? My son is almost six, my oldest daughter is almost three, and my youngest daughter is nine months old. They could never figure out how to get into another country by themselves.


18 posted on 06/20/2014 2:59:43 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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Obviously we both know they are being brought to the border and told to cross.


19 posted on 06/20/2014 3:02:57 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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The dissolution of a nations’s sovereignty..

Before our very eyes..

Obama golfs..

And reads canned speeches..

And feigns concern..

CONgre$$ diddles..


20 posted on 06/20/2014 3:05:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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