Report: 117% increase in children 12 and younger crossing border alone

LA Times ^ | 7-25-2014 | MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE

[Citizen Zed]

Not only have more unaccompanied children illegally crossed the southern border this year — more than twice last year's total — but they are crossing at much younger ages, according to a study released this week.

There has been a 117% increase in apprehensions among unaccompanied children ages 12 and younger and a 12% increase among teenagers between fiscal year 2013 and the first eight months of fiscal year 2014, according to government statistics obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Pew Research Center. Also, the number of unaccompanied girls that have been caught crossing the border illegally has increased more rapidly this year than the number of boys, Pew research found.

[Citizen Zed]

It's gotta be BS. How does a child make a journey like that alone?

[GeronL]

They aren’t coming alone. Who paid the coyotes?

[Viennacon]

[FlingWingFlyer]

And the blood of every one of them that didn’t make it because they were murdered along the way is on the hands of Barry and his commie ‘RATS.

[tumblindice]

And Mexico is allowing toddlers to ride on the top of Mexican freight cars, exposed to the elements, for hundreds of miles for the length of Mexico from south to north.
That’s some really hard-core, third-world stuff.
So I return to my 2006 argument: dun Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala for our expenses. If they refuse to pay, send gunshots with freighters south from Harlingen Texas seizing and executing upon any assets available for satisfaction ...
while dumping any non-adopted, post-adolescent, surly, tattooed or otherwise problem ninos in their country of origin.
Jeb has been talking a good game, so lure him aboard and drop him off in Panama. In the jungle.

[blueplum]

join parents who have been in the U.S. for years, have developed support networks and know where to turn for legal help

then why didn't they file paperwork for their citizenship years ago?

[Republican1795.]

This is so obvious that they are getting help arriving.

[Travis McGee]