Here is a newsflash you won’t hear from the mainstream media. The migrant flow to the United States is discretionary.
It nearly dried up at the beginning of the Trump administration when migrants believed that they had no chance of getting into the United States. Now, it is going all ahead full again because the message got out that, despite the rhetoric, the policy at the border hasn’t changed.
Children should not be making this journey. It is extremely dangerous to them. But there is now a premium on bringing children because of how we have handled these cases.
Even if a migrant does have a credible fear of persecution, there is a legitimate way to pursue that claim, and it does not involve entering the United States illegally.
First, such people should make their asylum claim in the first country where they feel safe, i.e., Mexico or some other country they are traversing to get here.
Secondly, as only a last resort, they should show up at a port of entry and make their claim there rather than crossing the border illegally.
There is a significant moral cost to not enforcing the border. There is obviously a moral cost to separating a parent from a child and almost everyone would prefer not to do it.
Letting these families in and allowing them to stay and to stay together makes a mockery of our laws and it creates an incentive for people to keep bringing children with them. Some migrants have admitted they brought their children not only to remove them from danger in such places as Central America and Africa, but because they believed it would cause the authorities to release them from custody sooner.
Others have admitted to posing falsely with children who are not their own, and Border Patrol officials say that such instances of fraud are increasing. It is becoming common to have parents entrust their children to a smuggler as a favor or for profit.
If someone is determined to come here illegally, the decent and safest thing would be to leave the child at home with a relative and send money back home. Because we favor family units over single adults, we are creating an incentive to do the opposite and use children to cut deals with smugglers.
And the Coyotes, (human traffickers) have teamed up with the MS-13 gang for what is, to them, a mutually lucrative partnership. THIS is one of the dirty little secrets being buried in the immigration controversy.
Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.
It’s become more lucrative and much safer to sell malleable teens than drugs or guns. A pound of heroin or an AK-47 can be retailed once, but a young girl can be sold 10 to 15 times a day.
In the United States, victims of MS-13 tend to be Latino immigrant girls or girls from the Northern Triangle countries who came into the country as unaccompanied minors. The girls, some as young as nine years old, were required to have sex with eight to 10 paying customers per day, sometimes seven days per week.
The Washington Post has reported on “dozens of prostitutes, many juveniles, being sold for sex in the Washington area by” MS-13, in a move by the gang to expand its illicit businesses. The majority of unaccompanied minors end up in California, New York, Texas, and the Washington DC area that includes Maryland and Virginia — states that have large Central American populations and thus large MS-13 populations. Many of the unaccompanied minors have experienced sexual abuse, exploitation or physical abuse in their home countries or during their migration to the United States.
These are the most vulnerable victims of the failure to enforce our immigration laws. If our feckless politicians continue anong this path they will continue to create misery for these young women by continuing a steady supply of fresh young sex slaves for the MS-13 human traffickers.
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