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Border Agent Says CBP Data Don’t Reflect Extent of Fake Family Problem
Adults bringing unrelated children across the United States border illegally to facilitate a quick release became a huge problem in 2019 during the last border surge.
Border Patrol identified 5,800 fake families during an eight-week period covering the height of the 2019 crisis, according to congressional testimony from then-Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan. Stories were rife of smugglers renting children to adults, and adults buying or borrowing children from parents.
This year, official data suggest that the problem has largely vanished.
Border Patrol agents have identified almost 70 cases of fraudulent family claims during the first eight months of this fiscal year less than 2 percent of the number of 2019 cases, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told The Epoch Times.
WASHINGTON After months of stalling, Vice President Kamala Harris will get a firsthand view of conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday showered.
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Unaccompanied Minor Crisis Sparks Fear of MS-13 Resurgence
McALLEN, Texas The number of unaccompanied children crossing the border is causing concern over the knock-on effects the wave will have on U.S. schools and communities.
The first surge of unaccompanied minors in 2014 was followed by an uptick in MS-13 gang violence in the areas where most of the minors were placed. MS-13 used the unaccompanied minor program as a recruiting tool, and vulnerable children found a home in the violent gang, often either by coercion or for a sense of belonging.
Harris County, Texas, has absorbed the most unaccompanied minors since 2014 (more than 20,000), and state Attorney General Ken Paxton said he’s “absolutely concerned” about the nexus with MS-13, or “Mara Salvatrucha.”