5/8/2019 -
Michelle Malkin Townhall.com
Who remembers the hysterical sound and fury of open borders
leftists last summer over President Donald Trump's detention and enforcement policies
at our besieged southern border?
Remember the #FamiliesBelongTogether, #WhereAreTheChildren,
#AbolishICE and #MeltICE hashtags?
Remember the "Trump Child Abuse," "Free the
Children," "Save the Children" and "AMERICANS DON'T USE
CHILDREN AS PAWNS," posters wielded at protests across the country?
Remember the 24-hour hunger strikes and Instagram-friendly
border photo-ops by actresses and supermodels of the anti-Trump resistance who
care, care, care, so much more than you about the suffering of migrant
children?
Remember Time magazine's fake news "Crying Girl,"
promoted in June 2018 as a global symbol of Trump's heartless "zero
tolerance" stance? Two-year-old Yanela Sanchez was never separated from
her mother. In fact, she had been dragged across the border unbeknownst to and
against the wishes of her father back in Honduras. He obliterated the "all
migrants are simply escaping persecution and violence" narrative by
revealing that he had a "good job" and the family's life was "fine."
He "never got the chance to say goodbye" to his daughter before his
wife paid a coyote $6,000 to bring them to the U.S.
Yanela's mother, who now bides her time awaiting an
immigration court hearing in migrant housing in Washington, D.C. (most likely
subsidized by you and me), abandoned her husband and three other children for a
chance to win in the asylum fraud lottery. She made the decision to tear her
own family apart, not Trump.
Here's my question: Where are all the caring resisters and
champions of children now that deplorable human renting/recycling scams
involving exploited illegal immigrant kids are coming to full light? These
horror stories are the unconscionably perverse and utterly predictable
consequence of incentivizing families -- real and fake -- to abuse our suicidal
generosity.
The Arizona Daily Star reported this week that a Guatemalan
man, Maynor Velasquez Molina, allegedly paid a family the equivalent of $130 to
'rent' their 8-year-old son to help him get into the U.S. as a
"family." He and the boy were caught in February. Across Central
America, the kiddie catch-and-release regime endorsed by open borders
ideologues is advertised as the hottest ticket to gain entry. Aliens caught
illegally crossing the Rio Grande Valley have told Border Patrol agents they surrendered
with children because they expected permisos (free passes) to be granted.
"Borderwide," the Daily Star revealed,
"federal officials said they had seen about 3,100 fraudulent family claims
since April 2018, alongside about 260,000 migrant family members."
In another outrageous case disclosed this month, Border
Patrol agents discovered a "recycled" illegal alien child who had
been used by at least three "families" of unrelated adults attempting
to get into the U.S. from Mexico. The practice is orchestrated by transnational
criminal organizations to increase smuggling profits. One Guatemalan woman in
South Carolina recycled children 13 times for payments of $1,500 each.
Border-trespassers and smugglers in turn pay drug cartels a
tax -- derecho de piso -- to gain passage through sections of the border
controlled by the criminal rackets. The RAND Corporation estimated revenue from
derecho de piso at anywhere between $30 million to $180 million in 2017.
Federal Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas
blew the lid off the Obama administration's deplorable role as child smuggling
facilitators in a scathing 2013 ruling on the case of U.S. vs. Mirtha Veronica
Nava-Martinez. Nava-Martinez, a resident alien, was an admitted human
trafficker caught at the border trying to smuggle an El Salvadoran minor into
the U.S. using the birth certificate that belonged to one of her daughters. The
transaction had been arranged by the minor's illegal immigrant mother living in
Virginia. She paid $6,000 up front on an $8,000 fee. After Nava-Martinez and
the child were caught, the Department of Homeland Security did not arrest the
mother. Instead, DHS "delivered the child to her" in Virginia.
Hanen noted that the Nava-Martinez case was the fourth that
had come before his court in which illegal immigrant parents had paid smugglers
to bring minor children across the border and the U.S. government had abetted
the operations. He called the feds' actions "dangerous" and
"unconscionable" for inducing parents to jeopardize their own
children's safety by turning the over to strangers engaged in criminal activity
with drug cartels and risking their lives in the desert. Indeed, Judge Hanen
warned that "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."
Trump's efforts to close the myriad loopholes that aid and
abet this transnational illegal immigrant kiddie smuggling racket have been
condemned as heartless. But what's truly inhumane are the virtue signalers who
use and abuse children as pawns in their ruthless, lucrative,
sovereignty-sabotaging pursuit of open borders.
Michelle Malkin's email address is writemalkin@gmail.com.
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