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Children are being repeatedly rented to pose as migrant family members
Posted on 5/7/19 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 5/7/19 at 2:44 pm
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Central American immigrants are "recycling" children as family members in an attempt to make their way into the United States, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
Border Patrol officers, along with Homeland Security Investigations, in El Paso, Texas, recently identified "at least one local case in which children are possibly being recycled and forced to undertake the treacherous journey from Central America to the United States," CBP said in a news release Friday.
On Wednesday, while interviewing a group of so-called family members, an officer noticed inconsistencies that led him to suspect that the alleged parent and child were not related.
"With continued questioning Border Patrol agents, OFO officers, and HSI agents were able to gain enough evidence to determine that the child had been 'recycled' in at least two prior instances," CBP said.
Thousands of Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras seeking asylum arrive at checkpoints along the U.S.-Mexico border every month, many claiming to be traveling as part of a family unit.
Officials told the Arizona Daily Star that it has seen about 3,100 fraudulent claims across the southern border since April 2018.
Border officials near Yuma, Arizona, reported more than 700 fraudulent family claims from October to March, according to the report.
The newspaper searched federal court records in Yuma and Tucson and found 53 prosecutions involving fraudulent family claims since June.
In one case, Maynor Velasquez Molina allegedly paid the family of an 8-year-old boy to pretend to be the man's son when they arrived in the U.S.
On Feb. 18, the Guatemalan man and the boy joined more than 100 other migrants and crossed into the U,S. near Lukeville, Arizona. The man showed a birth certificate for the boy to prove their relation, but that was later determined to be false.
In March, a grand jury indicted Molina on human-smuggling charges.
Human smuggling groups are exploiting children for profit by utilizing loopholes in the U.S. immigration system.
"Transnational criminal organizations continue to profit from individuals utilizing loopholes in our immigration system to commit fraud," CBP explained. "These groups have no concern for the welfare or safety of the children and family groups being smuggled to the Southwest Border."
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to begin a pilot program that would allow officials to collect DNA samples from those suspected of fraudulent family claims, the Tucson Sentinel reported last week.
The cheek swap tests would be performed on a case-by-case basis, officials said.
The government has adopted a DNA testing system called ANDE, which provides results in less than two hours. The machine destroys the sample after it is analyzed.
Central American immigrants are "recycling" children as family members in an attempt to make their way into the United States, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
Border Patrol officers, along with Homeland Security Investigations, in El Paso, Texas, recently identified "at least one local case in which children are possibly being recycled and forced to undertake the treacherous journey from Central America to the United States," CBP said in a news release Friday.
On Wednesday, while interviewing a group of so-called family members, an officer noticed inconsistencies that led him to suspect that the alleged parent and child were not related.
"With continued questioning Border Patrol agents, OFO officers, and HSI agents were able to gain enough evidence to determine that the child had been 'recycled' in at least two prior instances," CBP said.
Thousands of Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras seeking asylum arrive at checkpoints along the U.S.-Mexico border every month, many claiming to be traveling as part of a family unit.
Officials told the Arizona Daily Star that it has seen about 3,100 fraudulent claims across the southern border since April 2018.
Border officials near Yuma, Arizona, reported more than 700 fraudulent family claims from October to March, according to the report.
The newspaper searched federal court records in Yuma and Tucson and found 53 prosecutions involving fraudulent family claims since June.
In one case, Maynor Velasquez Molina allegedly paid the family of an 8-year-old boy to pretend to be the man's son when they arrived in the U.S.
On Feb. 18, the Guatemalan man and the boy joined more than 100 other migrants and crossed into the U,S. near Lukeville, Arizona. The man showed a birth certificate for the boy to prove their relation, but that was later determined to be false.
In March, a grand jury indicted Molina on human-smuggling charges.
Human smuggling groups are exploiting children for profit by utilizing loopholes in the U.S. immigration system.
"Transnational criminal organizations continue to profit from individuals utilizing loopholes in our immigration system to commit fraud," CBP explained. "These groups have no concern for the welfare or safety of the children and family groups being smuggled to the Southwest Border."
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to begin a pilot program that would allow officials to collect DNA samples from those suspected of fraudulent family claims, the Tucson Sentinel reported last week.
The cheek swap tests would be performed on a case-by-case basis, officials said.
The government has adopted a DNA testing system called ANDE, which provides results in less than two hours. The machine destroys the sample after it is analyzed.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 2:46 pm to Crimson Wraith
We know Democrats are known to prey on children... why does this surprise you when they defend what's going on down at the border. A few dead children go a long way in passing legislative... they don't care about the children, it's all about the endgame.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 2:58 pm to Crimson Wraith
I'd say the parents actually just sold their kids because they had no way to know if they would ever get them back.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:04 pm to Crimson Wraith
Capitalism is the best.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:07 pm to BamaAtl
I know right!
The US should just do what your commie/socialist utopia country would do and shoot them on sight.
The US should just do what your commie/socialist utopia country would do and shoot them on sight.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:20 pm to BamaAtl
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Capitalism is the best
WTF?
People lying and abusing children in order to take advantage of a government regulation is what you consider capitalism?
If you’re a fan of government regulations and the amount of lying and abuse that people will engage in for their own benefit, then brother, just you wait until the “Democratic Socialists” take over!
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:22 pm to Crimson Wraith
Great, just great...….my kids are blond haired.....thanks a lot Mrs Cane
This post was edited on 5/7/19 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:24 pm to Jimbeaux
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Capitalism is the best WTF? People lying and abusing children in order to take advantage of a government regulation is what you consider capitalism? If you’re a fan of government regulations and the amount of lying and abuse that people will engage in for their own benefit, then brother, just you wait until the “Democratic Socialists” take over!
It was a joke.....take a breath.
But i thought this was an organic movement for strictly asylum reasons. people fleeing violence and poverty.
what a crock. lock the border. get a grip on things. then maybe open it back up...slightly.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:25 pm to Jimbeaux
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People lying and abusing children in order to take advantage of a government regulation is what you consider capitalism?
People are just making a quick buck. Why do you want to impose socialist controls on what and who they can sell in a free market?
Go back to Stalingrad, comrade.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:26 pm to BamaAtl
our strawmen are the best, aren't they folks?
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:26 pm to bamarep
Yes. Goodness knows these children shouldn’t be separated from the sentient adults who paid good money to the child’s actual parent so the kid could be exploited and hauled them across a dessert so. We certainly want to make sure that the paying customer got what he paid for so he can live out the American Dream of becoming a rocket scientist and otherwise enriching our society with diversity.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:26 pm to Crimson Wraith
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:32 pm to Wednesday
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Yes. Goodness knows these children shouldn’t be separated from the sentient adults who paid good money to the child’s actual parent so the kid could be exploited ...
Indeed. Democrats whining about "separating families" are dumb as dirt, naive as can be and need to be told to sit down and STFU.
I'm looking at you, BummerATL.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:33 pm to Crimson Wraith
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Children are being repeatedly rented to pose as migrant family members
Duh.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:34 pm to Wednesday
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children shouldn’t be separated from the sentient adults who paid good money to the child’s actual parent so the kid could be exploited and hauled them across a dessert so. We certainly want to make sure that the paying customer got what he paid for
Customer service ftw
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:40 pm to Crimson Wraith
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In one case, Maynor Velasquez Molina allegedly paid the family of an 8-year-old boy to pretend to be the man's son when they arrived in the U.S.
Think I read it was like $130.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:41 pm to Screaming Viking
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It was a joke.....take a breath.
Posted on 5/7/19 at 3:56 pm to Crimson Wraith
THEY’RE COMING RIGHT FOR US
This post was edited on 5/7/19 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 5/7/19 at 4:28 pm to Screaming Viking
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It was a joke.....take a breath.
Hard to tell the difference these days between the ignorantly absurd and the sarcastically absurd.
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