Perpetual Amnesty: Minors Illegally Crossing TX Border on Rise
Parents in Central American countries may be sending their children to illegally cross the U.S. border into Texas after hearing that Democrats and Republicans are pushing for more laws granting amnesty to illegal [alien] immigrant minors.
Immigration officials told the Los Angeles Times that "up to 120 unaccompanied youths are arriving each day," a number that "has tripled over the last five years and that by some estimates could soon reach 60,000 a year." Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents "apprehended more than 21,000 minors traveling without families on a roughly 315-mile stretch of the Rio Grande that runs west from Harlingen to the south of Laredo. That was more than half the total of 38,833 detained nationwide."...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection must "turn over unaccompanied youths within 72 hours to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which places them in shelters while attempting to locate family or other sponsors with whom they can live while their immigration cases are being adjudicated." Those from Mexico are returned immediately...
... opponents of amnesty believe that any legislation granting generous pathways to citizenship will result in perpetual amnesty for children who enter the United States illegally.
CAIRCO Research