Via
Michael
Border Crisis: A new report shows the vast majority of
unaccompanied minors aren't unaccompanied at all, have family members
inside the U.S., are not victims of human trafficking and thus can be
deported immediately.
Rep.
Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and other Democrats have repeatedly made the
argument that Republicans shouldn't complain about the current border
invasion since it was a 2008 law that automatically entitles minors from
noncontiguous countries to asylum hearings before they face
deportation.
Gutierrez and his liberal colleagues in Congress and the media should read the law to find out what's in it.
As
the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) points out in a recent report,
under the definition of what constitutes an unaccompanied child (UAC)
in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act of 2008, most children from countries other than
Canada or Mexico do not qualify to stay here while they await a hearing.
According
to CIS, the law says that to receive the UAC designation the illegal
alien must be under 18 and without "a parent or legal guardian in the
United States." Yet, CIS notes, about 90% of the non-Mexican and
non-Canadian children pouring across the border are placed with family
members or guardians in America.
"An illegal immigrant who arrives
at the U.S. border who is not a victim of trafficking and has family
inside the United States should not be benefiting from protections in
the 2008 trafficking law," said Jon Feere, legal policy analyst at CIS
