The practice of paying children low wages for physically demanding work benefits the economic elite while forcing those in poverty to attempt to migrate to the United States.
16 Mar 2021
Republican leaders are spotlighting the heartbreak, costs, and chaos caused by President Joe Biden’s promise to welcome poor economic migrants who can survive the long trek to the United States border.
“It’s more than a crisis,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said March 15 in a TV-ready press conference at the border:
This is a human heartbreak. The sad part about all this it didn’t have to happen. This crisis is created by the presidential policies of this new administration. There’s no other way to it than a Biden border crisis.
The border chaos exists because Biden’s progressive deputies are determined to shoehorn many migrants into America through whatever regulatory, judicial, and legislative side-doors they can find or create. They are pushing for this immigration expansion, regardless of the deep and rational public opposition to the business-backed inflow of wage-cutting, rent-boosting, poverty-expanding migrants as the nation clim
Evidence Shows Most Migrant Children Are Teenagers Seeking U.S. Jobs
More than three-quarters of the child migrants who recently crossed the border into government custody are teenagers who claim ages of 15 to 17, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The data contradicts the narrative by President Joe Bidens deputies and by much of the media who suggest the young migrants are children traveling alone to seek safety in the United States.
We are not apprehending a 9-year-old child, who has come alone, who has traversed Mexico whose loving parents sent that child alone, insisted Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Were not expelling that 9-year-old child to Mexico when that childs country of origin was Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador, Mayorkas said on March 1.