Posted on 06/08/2016 4:22:04 PM PDT by Elderberry
Illegal immigrants are kidnapping children and bringing them across the border, hoping to appear to be families so they can take advantage of lax enforcement policies, the Obama administration told a federal appeals court on Tuesday.
Leon Fresco, a deputy assistant attorney general who handles immigration cases, made the stunning claim as he defended the administration’s policy of detaining illegal immigrant parents and children caught traveling together as they jump the border. After a federal judge last year ordered the families quickly released, Mr. Fresco said it’s served as an enticement for kidnapping.
“When people now know that when I come as a family unit, I won’t be apprehended and detained — we now have people being abducted so that they can be deemed as family units, so that they can avoid detention,” Mr. Fresco told the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
He did not back up that claim in court, and did not respond to a follow-up email seeking comment. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that handles detention and deportation, declined to comment, citing the ongoing case, while Customs and Border Protection, which guards the border, did not respond to a request for comment.
But Peter Schey, the lawyer who argued in court on behalf of the families, and is in touch with hundreds of families as part of the lawsuit, said there’s no evidence to back up Mr. Fresco’s claim.
“We know zero instances of that, and there’s zero support for that anywhere in the record,” he said. “If they know of any such instances, I would think they would bring the actual instances to the attention of the court.”
How to treat the illegal immigrant families is just one of the thorny questions raised by the surge of illegal immigrants fleeing Central America
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It’s all by design. Obama has turned the borders into a sieve and The Beast will continue this policy in order to get more Dem voters.
If Trump doesn’t get elected and puts a stop to this BS, the late, great USA will be a distant memory.
It is very easy to determine if the child belongs to the adults by questioning the child. I guess that the Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to ask the questions.
Huh? Since when has this administration's policy been one of detaining illegals?
Gee, who ELSE has a background with 'community organizing'? Hmmmm, oh YES, it's Hillary 'Saul Alinsky' Klintoon and SHE WON'T UNDO ANY OF THIS. As a matter of fact she'll ESCALATE IT.
My answer to a Hillary presidency in 2016: MILITARY COUP! If it’s good enough to stop her Morsi mess in Egypt then it’s good enough for an America under Hillary.
Why do you think there’s been such a turnover of senior military officers during Obama’s tenure? He’s aware of patriotic risk. Totalitarians thru the ages have purged military leadership to limit the risk of coups.
Once they clear the appalling conditions of a `safe house’ the real horror begins for these little boys and girls.
Many of these children, along with women who can’t pay the second & final fee, are put to work in cartel sex shops.
The Justice dept. knows all of this, as does Hillary when she calls Mexican president Pena, “Our good friend.”
But we can’t really expect any sense of decency to deter people who actually subsidise the murder, dismemberment and sale of infants and their body parts, and then insist they are doing “good work” can we?
Kidnapping is a serious crime but 0blama is more than happy to import kidnappers.
Make that ‘typical’ White people
The government has been delivering unaccompanied minor directly into the hands of human traffickers, as well.
“.....“If they know of any such instances, I would think they would bring the actual instances to the attention of the court.”
Sure they would (S), and risk the wrath of Obama, and his leftist thugs!? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!
Ummm...so is this actually happening or does it just come down to this one guy suspecting it might be happening? I’m no fan of amnesty but I’m not a fan of slipshod journalism either. Read more than the headline.
Very true.
And not only that, but I think denying many vets their right to bear arms is for the same reason.
This story will get ZERO play in the MSM because it points out how utterly cynical and Machiavellian the Democrats are.
And we need to leave them alone “for the children”.....ironic, no?
Another Trump ad waiting to be broadcast.
Despicable.
I will simply note what occurred in Germany with it’s ‘kid’ issue.
At some point in 2015, with growing number of people showing up (1.1 million in 2015 for the year)...people compared notes and realized that the German benefits/temp housing/lodging were all tied to a family unit....the more....the better.
So, they started to have cases where some guy showed up with two kids....indicating that the wife had died somewhere in the past. This got the guy into a family-related shelter, better accommodations, and extra money.
Last year, around October...they had this Frankfurt refugee guy who noted that his son became lost in the subway system. As big as Frankfurt is...the subway system really isn’t that big. Cops felt the kid would show up in a couple of hours. Well....kid didn’t show up. Fair sized effort to find the kid. Odd....dad didn’t seem all that worried. By the beginning of the 3rd day...things didn’t make any sense. They came to discover that Dad put the kid on a train to Brussels...kid was returning to his family. So the scheme came unraveled...kid was borrowed from some relative to pretend to be this guy’s kid. This helped the guy get family housing instead of pushing him off into a barracks-like situation with four guys to a room. His part of the deal was to return the “son” in three or four months to the real family.
By the end of 2015...news media is noting that around 4,000 immigrant or refugee kids are missing in central Europe (mostly in Germany). Big worry....all the social justice people thinking that the kids are kidnapped for pedophiles or such. The thing is....the parents just don’t seem worried. No one believes that the kids are gone....they just went back to the normal family after being borrowed.
In my region of Germany (Hessen)....we had some family out in some park along a river, who reported their son missing. Cops made a major effort to look for the kid....assuming he’d drowned. Number of days put into this....lots of manpower. Eventually, they all came to question the story, the kid, and the family. They can’t prove nothing, but most people think the kid was returned to his rightful family somewhere else as well.
It’s a corrupted practice and just makes the kids ability to readjust to his new land....practically impossible. He might get ‘borrowed’ two or three times.
The Germans? They are absolutely stupid and naive about the trend, and simply don’t believe someone would lie to get improved benefit packages.
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