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Wednesday, July 3, 2019

MIGRANTS TRY TO BUY CHILDREN TO ILLEGALLY ENTER U.S.

MIGRANTS TRY TO BUY CHILDREN 
TO ILLEGALLY ENTER U.S.
BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
If lefties really cared about the kids they can't stop weeping over, they would stop encouraging the trafficking and trade in children.
Instead, they boost the trade and then pretend to be outraged.
Here's what any decent person would truly be outraged by.
Some migrants in Tijuana are trying to purchase children from vulnerable single mothers in local shelters so they can more easily cross into the United States, according to shelter directors, migrants and Tijuana law enforcement authorities.
Migrants in Tijuana shelters said they are alarmed after reports of single mothers being approached by groups of men who have offered to buy children to improve their chances of safely crossing into the United States.
A decades-old legal document, known as the Flores agreement, says migrant children should only be held briefly in U.S. border custody, which often means they are released, along with the parent or guardian with whom they crossed while they wait for their asylum cases to make their way through clogged immigration courts.
And releasing unaccompanied minors with their guardians incentivizes trafficking children.
U.S. border authorities have been warning since June 2018 about people fraudulently using children who aren’t theirs to pose as family units and gain entry into the United States, a claim that critics said was overblown.
But now, authorities in Tijuana are warning migrant mothers to keep their children close by and supervised, after reports of men offering to purchase migrant children in order to cross.
Right-wing conspiracy theory, as the media likes to call it, is reality.
Portillo said the groups of men have been approaching the Iglesia Embajadores de Jesus shelter in Tijuana and offering about 7,000 pesos, or $350, to purchase a child to cross into the United States.
She said she fears the requests and the offers of money will turn into demands or kidnappings. Portillo said she never lets her two boys, aged 10 and 8, out of her sight.
“They want to rob our kids so they can cross into the United States,” she said angrily.
Pastor Gustavo Banda, a Tijuana shelter director, said families at the shelter are terrified and feel forced to keep all their children locked inside at all times.
A 15-year-old from Haiti said she was afraid to give her name because she witnessed the men approaching the shelter asking for children to buy.
“It’s horrific,” she said. “I could not even imagine the horror before I came here. I just wonder what happens to the kids once they make it across. It’s not like their mom or dad who will care for them no matter what.”
Ask Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, currently weeping over a Burger King parking lot.
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SEE ALSO:
https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/07/02/illegal-aliens-are-buying-children-to-cross-u-s-border/