We have a huge ongoing problem from Central America. This is a very good article by the Washington Post. Realize the murder rate in Central America is at a 17 year LOW. Only a tiny percentage of them would qualify for asylum. A few facts reprinted from the article.
“In August, 12,774 migrant family members were taken into custody along the Mexico border, a 38% jump from the previous month, and agents say September’s numbers appear to be headed even higher.”
“Guatemalans send home nearly $9 billion a year in remittances, ... twice as much as they did a decade ago.”
” The US deported 333 underage Guatemalans between January and August. Mexico... deported 7,910....”
“The US sent back 524 children / teens to Central America between January and August, while Mexico deported 14,499.”
“only 1.4 percent of the family members who entered the US illegally during 2017 have been returned to their home countries. The vast majority remain waiting for their asylum cases to be adjudicated, but an immigration court backlog of nearly 750,000 cases means it may be years before they appear before a judge.”
“an especially large increase in the number of adult men arriving with children, from 7,896 in 2016 to 16,667 in 2017. DHS officials have documented a threefold increase in fraud cases of migrants claiming to be the parents of children who are not their own.”
Cross posting info: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3708414/posts?page=123#122
Yet the #fakeNews says thousands when it is actually tens of thousands.
There is the answer. Stop the remittances. Label them as money laundering. There are many other things you could do but this would be a start.
This is why they are separated at the border.....to identify the fraud.
And remember, the migrants calculatedly use kid-fraud b/c it increases their freebies substantially----especially those EITC checks.