Posted on 05/16/2022 1:27:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bruno Silva made his way across the muddy Rio Grande along the Mexican border with El Paso, 11-month-old Maria perched on his shoulders. An exhausted Shyrley Oliveira staggered behind.
They looked like just another family of migrants crossing to the U.S., Ms. Oliveira said, recalling the journey from Brazil she made at age 18 in 2019.
Although Ms. Oliveira is Maria’s mother, Mr. Silva wasn’t her father. In fact, he had only gotten to know Ms. Oliveira a few weeks earlier as part of what authorities call a child-renting scam that has been used by some Brazilians fleeing poverty to try to get into the U.S.
Ms. Oliveira had long wanted to migrate to the U.S., but a trip brokered by smugglers would have cost her $8,000, she said. Under the arrangement, Mr. Silva agreed to pay $3,000 toward Ms. Oliveira’s fee in exchange for letting him pose as Maria’s father at the border, according to Ms. Oliveira and Brazilian police.
The reason: It is easier to be allowed to stay as a parent with a child in tow, rather than as a single adult. Under U.S. immigration law and a landmark court settlement, migrants who enter the country with children under 18 are afforded special rights because those children can’t be detained for longer than about 20 days.
“Kids are a guarantee that you can get in here, it’s as if they were visas,” said Ms. Oliveira, speaking recently via a video call from Massachusetts, where she now lives.
About 85,000 Brazilians have been apprehended entering the U.S. southern border in the 18 months through March—a record high from this country, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Between 2019 and 2021, at least a few thousand Brazilian children likely entered the U.S. with an adult
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Ah! The Ilhan Omar model of immigration!
Mexicans say this is stupid. Just claim you’re a kid even if it’s obvious you’re at least 30.
Saw on antoehr article AZ is now bussing illegals to DC. I dont agree with that policy but at least it’s something. The point is, the first bus load had illegals from 12 countries.
That blew my mind. The world is coming across the border. Unreal.
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Ilhan Nur Said Elmi before she attached herself to the Omar family.
15,000 a day now from every country all over the world.
Desperate, and yet with seemingly endless financial resources???
Doesn’t pass the smell test.
Well, who could have possibly seen that coming???
It’s not like this is new, and it’s why “families” were separated at the border for a while.
Need to double check when Jose comes across the border with 3 teenage girls he says are his nieces, but he doesn’t know their last names.
“...fleeing poverty...”
IMO, that’s not a viable reason to let anyone into the US.
The population of the city of Pittsburgh, every 2 weeks.
For God’s sake can’t these people fix their own damn countries?!!
Selfish bastards who have NO regard for our sovereignty, our laws, our border OUR HOME!!. Arrogant beggars with an an obnoxious sense of undeserved entitlement.
I’m so sick of this. Democrats and Republicans are determined to turn us into a Third World crap hole and won’t stop until we’re Mexico with nukes.
They’re all fat, well fed, well dressed and they all have smart phones.
Human garbage destroying a once great nation.
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