White
House Hid Huge Spike Of Families Crossing Border
New
data shows the White House has painted a false picture of the Central American
migration by hiding a huge spike in “family units” who are illegally crossing
the Texas border.
The
data, which was dumped by the U.S. border patrol late Friday afternoon, shows
that inflow of youths and children traveling without parents has doubled since
2013, to 57,525 in the nine months up to July 2014.
But
the number of migrants who cross the border in so-called “family units” has
spiked five-fold to 55,420, according to the border patrol’s data, which came out amid a storm of news about the
shoot-down of a Malaysian aircraft in Ukraine, delays in failed U.S. nuke talks
with Iran, and on Hamas’ continued war against
Israel.
In
the Rio Grande area where most of the migrants are crossing the border, the
number of so-called “unaccompanied children” was actually outnumbered by the
inflow by adults, parents and children in “family units,” according to the
data.
The
much-faster growth in “family units” has been hidden by White House and agency
officials, who have tried to portray the influx as a wave of children fleeing
abuse and violence.
Top
officials, such as Jeh Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, has
explained the influx as a child migration, and justified the government’s welcoming response as acting “in the
best interests of the children.” That portrayal has been picked up and
spread by Democratic legislators, reporters and bloggers — such as Greg Sargent
at The Washington Post and Rachel Lienesch at the Huffington Post – to help mute the public’s growing
anger at the Democrats’ failure to guard the
border.
However.
that effort has largely failed. Most of the unaccompanied youths say they’re
aged 14 to 17, and many are seeking jobs. Also, multiple polls shows the majority of Americans — and near-majorities of Latin-Americans — blame Obama for the
breakdown. A July Gallup poll shows that the crisis has prompted Americans to
identify it as the nation’s leading problem.
White
House officials also touted the wave of so-called “unaccompanied children,” and
downplayed the “family units,” because they wished to focus the media’s
attention on a supposed problem caused by a 2008 law, titled the William
Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization
Act.
White
House officials say the law prevents them from repatriating Central Americans
youths and children once they’re legally dubbed “unaccompanied alien children.”
Officials also say the 2008 law forces them to settle the youths in the United
States until judges decide if they can stay in the
country.
The
2008 law was designed to allow severely-traumatized victims of forced
trafficking — such as teenage prostitutes held by violent pimps — to apply for
green cards in the United States.
In
fact, the Central American youths are not being trafficked. Instead, many youths or their parents pay so-called coyotes to
help them cross the border, and most are eventually handed over to their parents and relatives living in the United States, often
illegally.
If
the youths were not deemed to be protected by the 2008 law, other immigration
laws would have allowed officials to repatriate them
rapidly.
Many
of the men, women and children who cross the border in “family units” are
temporarily held until they’re transported to cities where they have relatives
or friends.
Those
resettlement efforts have sparked a growing wave of nationwide protests, and denunciations from governors and federal legislators. Officials
have tried to hide the migrant
transfers and
locations to mute protests.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/
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