They’re ‘posing as families’! Homeland security chief says ‘well coached’ asylum fraudsters are abusing federal laws and putting children in danger
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen opened a new defense for the Trump administration following attacks over separating illegal immigrants from children
She said many people who appear to be family units when they arrive aren’t actually related – which is one reason for the ‘family separations’
Between October and February HHS saw a 315 per cent increase in ‘illegal aliens fraudulently using children to pose as family units to gain entry into the country’
Overall numbers are low, however
She told a group of sheriffs that Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy means the end of ‘get-out-of-jail-free cards’ that illegal immigrants have used children to obtain
Also said federal law allows DHS to quickly deport Mexicans and Canadians but requires the government to hold others for long periods of time
But those immigrants’ children can only be held for 20 days, meaning they’re often released along with the people who snuck them into the U.S.
DHS is asking Congress to change the laws but Nielsen says ‘we will not apologize for doing our job’
White House spokeswoman Mercedes Schlapp said 200,000 illegal imimgrant family units have been released into the U.S. since 2016
Schlapp said Democrats are advocating for smugglers like ‘an MS-13 gang member walking in with a one-year-old’
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 June 2018
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen claimed Monday that the crisis of illegal immigrant children being housed separately from the adults who bring them across the border is, in part, fueled by men and women making fake asylum claims with children who aren’t theirs.
‘From October 2017 to this February, we have seen a staggering 315 per cent increase in illegal aliens fraudulently using children to pose as family units to gain entry into the country,’ she told the annual National Association of Sheriffs meeting in New Orleans.
‘This must stop. All this does is put the children at risk.’
White House spokeswoman Mercedes Schlapp added in a Fox News Channel interview that one example of a fraudster is ‘an MS-13 gang member walking in with a one-year-old.’
A Department of Homeland Security official told DailyMail.com on Monday that the 315 per cent increase refers to a comparison between 46 such cases during the government’s fiscal year 2017, and 191 cases during just the first five months of fiscal 2018, which ran from September 2017 to February 2018.
Despite the low raw numbers, extrapolating that more recent total to a 12-month period would produce a tenfold increase from 2017 to 2018.
The DHS official said the Obama administration never tracked those numbers, so Trump administration agency workers had to comb through the cases and hand-count those where entering children were determined not to be related to the adults they traveled with.
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