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Who Is Smuggling Immigrant Children Across The Border? (2014)
NPR ^ | 7/15/14 | John Burnett

Posted on 06/19/2018 6:16:56 PM PDT by Libloather

**SNIP**

U.S. authorities claim that human smugglers like El Lobo (the wolf) are at the heart of the current border crisis because they have facilitated the travels of the 57,000 unaccompanied immigrant children who've been apprehended in South Texas since October.

"We cross them in inner tubes. If they're 3 or 4 years old, I have to cross them myself. I can't let them drown," he says.

The Wolf wears Reeboks with pink soles, a black polo shirt and a thin mustache. He's handsome in a bad-boy sort of way. We sit in an open-air lunchroom on a back street in Matamoros, across the river from Brownsville, Texas. He's explaining his rates: $2,500 from Chetumal, Mexico, all the way to Matamoros — 1,200 miles. The actual river crossing is another $500 to $1,000, "depending on the size of the kid."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014; aliens; border; children; illegal; smuggling
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Smuggling children should be a crime.
1 posted on 06/19/2018 6:16:57 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Lemme guess...today’s main story on “The NPR News” features the words “concentration camps”.


2 posted on 06/19/2018 6:25:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Libloather

It’s called ‘community organizing’...


3 posted on 06/19/2018 6:31:15 PM PDT by northislander
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To: Libloather

...Smuggling children should be a crime...

It is a crime.


4 posted on 06/19/2018 6:32:24 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: Libloather

The demoncRats. Case closed.


5 posted on 06/19/2018 6:33:21 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: Sasparilla

Smugglers should be summarily executed and left out for the buzzards.


6 posted on 06/19/2018 6:33:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

Didn’t Obama send planes to bring them in ?


7 posted on 06/19/2018 6:42:51 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

O’muslim was using taxpayer’s dollars to bring in as much of the 3rd world as possible. Fundamental transformation baby... Planes, trains and automobliles. If they couldn’t get here on their own he would provide transport. He also handed out visas to every turd worlder that wanted to come to the U.S. to include Ebola patients and terrorists.


8 posted on 06/19/2018 6:48:27 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Libloather

Who, where, when, why , how missing. Nada. He may steal or buy those children. Take a baby in or out of Mexico for decades and one must always be prepared to pay the “bite” or prove relationship to keep them safe with you.


9 posted on 06/19/2018 7:08:52 PM PDT by amihow
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To: Libloather

Portland Oregon is first in human trafficking on the West Coast. They are also the most atheist city in the US. They are out in force protesting the smuggled children’s detention because Trump is cutting off their supply


10 posted on 06/19/2018 7:50:15 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Libloather

Bookmark


11 posted on 06/19/2018 7:59:12 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Libloather

If we can interviewem, we can shootem!


12 posted on 06/19/2018 7:59:47 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Libloather

I have heard that mothers give their daughters birth control before they take their trip north expecting the coyotes to rape them along the way.


13 posted on 06/19/2018 8:13:15 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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I know I am missing something, but for that kind of money, couldn't they get a passport, a tourist visa and a plane ticket. Once here they have "X" number of days, before they become "illegal."

What am I missing?

14 posted on 06/19/2018 8:19:54 PM PDT by fini
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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15 posted on 06/19/2018 9:14:56 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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To: Libloather

Thank you for finding that article. I’ve been trying to figure out what year that was when all the “unaccompanied” children were brought into this country, and now we do not know where they are. Then, their parents were probably “permitted” to enter to keep the family together (chain-migration).


16 posted on 06/20/2018 3:07:28 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Just because you THINK it, doesn't make it so.)
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To: Libloather
Holding illegals in the United States costs a fortune. Hundreds of thousands of dollars a month... AND it works as an incentive to draw MORE illegals to our borders.

There's a solution:

We have the authority to hold illegals here - we have the authority to hold them in their own country at an US Embassy controlled Center IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY.

WE CAN FLY ILLEGALS AND THEIR CHILDREN FIRST CLASS BACK TO THEIR HOME COUNTRY AND HOLD THEM IN A US EMBASSY OWNED FACILITY UNTIL THEIR CASE IS HEARD.

AND...

WE CAN EVEN ALLOW THEM TO ‘GO FREE’ IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY WITH A DATE TO COME BACK BACK TO THE EMBASSY TO HEAR THEIR CASE.

If A PERSON seeking asylum is concerned about being hurt if they're in their home country - - those people can choose to stay in the Embassy compound IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY.

This WILL short circuit incentives bringing these people here... most of them can't afford to pay to get here over and over again.

17 posted on 06/20/2018 6:59:51 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Difference between Hillary and Putin? Putin can win an election rigged in his favor.)
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To: Gay State Conservative; northislander; Sasparilla; deadrock; dfwgator; butlerweave; ...
Holding illegals in the United States costs a fortune. Hundreds of thousands of dollars a month... AND it works as an incentive to draw MORE illegals to our borders.

There's a solution:

We have the authority to hold illegals here - we have the authority to hold them in their own country at an US Embassy controlled Center IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY.

WE CAN FLY ILLEGALS AND THEIR CHILDREN FIRST CLASS BACK TO THEIR HOME COUNTRY (ending the concentration camp meme) AND HOLD THEM IN A US EMBASSY OWNED FACILITY UNTIL THEIR CASE IS HEARD.

AND...

WE CAN EVEN ALLOW THEM TO ‘GO FREE’ IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY WITH A DATE TO COME BACK BACK TO THE EMBASSY TO HEAR THEIR CASE.

If A PERSON seeking asylum is concerned about being hurt if they're in their home country - - those people can choose to stay in the Embassy compound IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY.

This WILL short circuit incentives bringing these people here... most of them can't afford to pay to get here over and over again.

18 posted on 06/20/2018 7:05:16 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Difference between Hillary and Putin? Putin can win an election rigged in his favor.)
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To: GOPJ

I do like the way you think.

Bump!


19 posted on 06/20/2018 7:39:46 AM PDT by null and void (Social justice warriors, killing the trees which produce the fruit. H/T blackdog)
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To: null and void

Thanks null...


20 posted on 06/20/2018 7:55:38 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Difference between Hillary and Putin? Putin can win an election rigged in his favor.)
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