Government says parents of nearly HALF of kids younger than 5 taken at the border can’t have them back because they’re child abusers, kidnappers and murderers – and others aren’t actually parents
President tweeted this week that Democrats in Congress should help stop illegal immigrants gain entry to the U.S. by bring children with them
‘Traffickers know how it works,’ he claimed; ‘They are just using children!’
Homeland Security Department has cited ‘many instances where human traffickers have used children to cross the border to gain illegal entry’
Now DOJ and DHS say 46 of the 103 children in custody who are under 5 years old wouldn’t be safe with the adults who brought them across the border
Some weren’t actually their parents; others are in prison for kidnapping, child abuse or murder; another is wanted for murder in Guatemala
Still others gave phony birth certificates or planned to house a child with a known child sex abuser
A dozen were deported but declined to take their children with them
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
12 July 2018
The Trump administration said Thursday that nearly half of the children ages 5 and under who were separated from grown-ups at the U.S. border can’t be reunited with their parents, mostly because many of the adults are violent criminals – and some lied about being the minors’ parents.
President Donald Trump had claimed Tuesday that illegal immigrants and human traffickers were ‘using children’ to manipulate America’s immigration system and make it easier for adults to enter the U.S. without papers and remain there.
Of the 103 minors in the youngest age group, the administration has reunited 57 with parents, but the other 46 are ‘ineligible,’ the Justice and Homeland Security Departments reported.
Eleven of the adults have ‘serious criminal histor[ies],’ the agencies announced, including charges or convictions for child cruelty, kidnapping, murder, human smuggling, domestic violence and narcotics-related crime.
One of the men is wanted for murder in Guatemala, Chris Meekins, Chief of Staff, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services told reporters on a conference call.
Seven more were ‘determined not to be a parent’ at all, including three whose deception was discovered through DNA testing.
Meekins described one adult who said he was a parent ‘right up until the time of a DNA swab,’ and then retracted his claim.
Authorities determined that one potential child sponsor was alleged to have abused the child he was trying to claim.
Another told the government that if his child were returned to him, he planned to house the youngster with an adult who has been charged with sex abuse of a young girl.
Eleven are in state or federal custody for other reasons.
One of the adults presented a falsified birth certificate, and another has a contagious disease.
Twelve have already been deported.
‘We don’t have the legal authority to bring those individuals back into the country for reunification purposes,’ Meekins said Thursday. ‘They have no lawful right to be here.’
He also said those people had already been offered the opportunity to take the children with them when they were deporter, and declined.
The shocking statistics will heap fuel on Trump’s fiery argument that his political foes should adopt a more flexible approach to changing immigration law.
Meekins declined to say during the conference call how many violent criminals and fake parental claims are among the larger group of people claiming children between the ages of 5 and 17.
Information about those children is expected to be released to a federal judge later in the day.
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