Child trafficking: The political left’s silence borders on the outrageous…

In a previous post concerning the topic of human trafficking and the political left’s seeming lack of interest in it, The Motley Monk observed:

This iteration of the global war on human trafficking is doomed to failure. Fueled by their hearts and not by their minds, the very people who decry human trafficking can’t seem to figure out whose policies sent an open invitation for human traffickers to practice their trade in the left’s own front yard…at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

With that in mind, The Motley Monk overheard U.S. Representative Louis Gohmert (R-TX) state on Saturday’s “Fox and Firends” that a federal judge had accused the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of participating in human trafficking. That statement caught The Motley Monk’s ear, so he did a little investigating, finding that Representative Gohmert was 100% correct. His source was an article over at Townhall.com, written by Katie Pavlich and published nearly seven months ago on December 19, 2013. The headline: “DHS Complicit in Cartel Human Trafficking of Minors to Illegals Living in the United States.”

Hmmm…isn’t DHS responsible to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

“But wasn’t that a long time ago?” many on the political left might ask.

Yes, it’s true that was a very long time ago.

Some might even protest: “What…does…it… matter…now?”

It matters very much now because DHS continues to participate in enabling cartel trafficking of minors, delivering them to illegals who live in the United States, and completing criminal transactions on behalf of illegal immigrants. This, despite a filing written by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on December 13, 2012.

The case before Judge Hanen concerned Patricia Elizabeth Salmeron Santos, the mother of a 10-year-old El Salvadorean girl, who had been living illegally in Virginia after being denied legal entry into the United States in 2001. Salmeron Santos hired Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez, a resident alien living in the United States while travelling to and from Mexico, to smuggle the girl from Matamoros to Virginia. Nava-Martinez was caught at a Brownsville, Texas, border checkpoint.

Judge Hanen wrote:

Salmeron Santos admitted that she started this conspiracy by hiring alien smugglers to transfer her child from El Salvador to Virginia. She agreed to pay $8500 (and actually paid $6,000 in advance) for these human traffickers to smuggle her daughter). The criminal conspiracy instigated by Salmeron Santos was temporarily interrupted when Nava-Martinez was arrested. Despite this setback, the goal of the conspiracy was successfully completed thanks to the United States Government. This Court is quite concerned with the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security completing the criminal mission of individuals who are violating the border security of the United States.” (italics added)

According to Pavlich, what’s going on is that illegal immigrants who are living in the United States are paying human traffickers connected to Mexican cartels to smuggle their children into the United States. How so? Judge Hanen writes:

Although Nava-Martinez [the smuggler] was arrested and charged, the minor was delivered to her mother living illegally in Virginia by DHS, automatically making the minor eligible for the President Obama’s DREAMers program. Further Salmeron-Santos, who illegally hired a human trafficker to smuggle her daughter across an international border, isn’t facing charges.
The DHS officials were notified that Salmeron-Santos instigated this illegal conduct. Yet, instead of arresting Salmeron-Santos for instigating the conspiracy to violate our border security laws, the DHS delivers the child to her—thus successfully completing the mission of the criminal conspiracy. It did not arrest her. It did not prosecute her. It did not even initiate deportation proceedings for her. This DHS policy is a dangerous course of action.

How dangerous? In his order, Hanen notes:

DHS encourages parents to “seriously jeopardize the safety of their children”;
DHS policy enables violent drug cartels, undermines efforts to deter criminal activity or further violations and lowers the morale of law enforcement agents working to enforce the law on the border.
Aliens being smuggled are “assaulted, raped, kidnapped and or killed.”

Obviously, the people running and working for these cartels are not the kind of people who staff the local Catholic Charities office. Hanen continues:

The cartels control the entire smuggling process. These entities are not known for their concern for human life….The Government is not only allowing them to fund the illegal and evil activities of these cartels, but is also inspiring them to do so. These men and women [law enforcement], with no small risk to their own safety, do their best to enforce our laws and protect the citizens of the United States. It seems shameful that some policymaker in their agency institutes a course of inaction that negated their efforts. It has to be frustrating to those that are actually doing the work of protecting Americans when those efforts are thwarted by a policy that supports lawmakers.

Judge Hanen likens the logic of the DHS policy to their agents seizing illegal drugs or weapons from smugglers and delivering those drugs or weapons to the criminals who initially solicited their illegal act of importing or exporting those drugs or weapons. Judge Hanen concluded: “DHS should enforce the laws of the United States—not break them.”

Unfortunately, as the number of immigrant children smuggled illegally into the United States by criminal cartels has increased exponentially since Judge Hanen filed his brief seven months ago, the President of the United States has evidently done nothing to direct his DHS to cease from participating in cartel human trafficking of minors to illegals living in the United States.

How’s that for social justice?

Why hasn’t the United Nations, the Holy See, and the Catholic Religious Orders and Congregations—all of whom who have be uniform in their condemnation of child trafficking—protested and condemned the Obama administration’s policy? After all it tolerates—if not requires—DHS to be complicit in cartel human trafficking of minors to illegals living in the United States.

Perhaps their silence is simply due to the mainstream media’s blackout concerning Judge Hanen’s filing.

I have a big problem with either side on anything connected with illegal immigration.

My first question is why would a person insist on being here illegal in the first place?

But since they are here where did they get 8500 dollars to get their child brought here?

I disagree that a mother paying some one to bring her child to her is an action of a criminal.

If it is then we need to hunt down all of the criminals who were involved in human trafficking from the Axis nations during Hitler`s reign of terror, as it works both ways.

We need to find out why people are willing to risk their lives to get into this country, I do not think it has any thing to do with love for this country or to be free.

I believe to find the answer we have to look inside of our Government.

I don`t know any details but could it be that the aliens are getting even a bigger hand out than what the lazy generation of socialist Americans are getting?

If we are going to call some one criminal maybe we should start with one of the hundreds of branches of our Government.

A.T.F
H.H.S
D.H.S

I do not even know what most of them are called but we have a branch of government for every aspect of our lives and the people in each branch of government are living off of the taxpayers even though they work against each other.

It is them that are picking us clean,( our own Government )

Also it is not all the fault of that illegal alien in the white house, it started long before the Socialist lovers which are the majority voted him in.

So I for one am not going to start calling a woman who paid some one to bring her daughter to her a criminal, at least not until we get rid of the real criminals who are running this country.

The only way we can rid the Government of criminals is to go to the polls and vote for a party that believes in the constitution.

The Constitution Party would be a good one to think about.

It is amazing that most Christians call this a nation under God but will ignore a political which believes in that very thing.

They risk their lives because this is a great place to be

Yes, it is a great place to be for many reasons, but some of the reasons would lure them to Russia if it were as easy.

Many come for freedom and I have no argument with that.

I was mostly referring to the illegals from across the border because I am or at least used to be quite familiar with that.

Since jobs became plentiful In the U.S white and black and Mexican Americans who could do other things left the fruit picking and etc to some one else.

So the Mexicans came flooding across the border to do our work which they are very good at.

But then came social services with their hate for any one who has more than they do and not knowing when to stop and also the fact they employ many Mexican Americans who have relatives in Mexico and got them here just to get them on social services.

And that does not include the legal workers who come to work and bring their family which are taken care of by social services.

The above was taking place in the seventies and many of the Mexican Americans were mad as hell about it because they knew first hand what was going on.

As far as I knew the illegals on the farms at that time were not getting welfare, if they were seen they were taken back across the border and would be back here the next day to work, and I nor the Mexican Americans who I worked with had any problem with that.

And do I blame the illegals? no I blame the stupid socialist government.

A huge number of the “immigrants” are Chinese.>>>>>

I am not familiar with their plight at all.

The problem is not with Obama, it is with the socialist
majority who Voted him and the rest of the socialists to power.

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