The Del Rio, Texas, sector of the border continues to be the nation’s busiest.
This past weekend alone, the Border Patrol encountered 2,438 migrants illegally crossing into the United States. Included in the total were 365 family units and 57 unaccompanied children (UACs). In theory, all but the UACs can be sent back to Mexico under still-existing CDC Title 42. The UACs cannot be expelled, however, and so–unwittingly or not–will now be trafficked by the Biden administration.
The CBP has noted a sharp rise in the numbers of UACs crossing the border so far this fiscal year. During the period from October 1 through December 31, 2021, the Del Rio Sector encountered 2,280 UACs. Throughout FY 2021, a record total of 122,000 were encountered.
Central to the increase has been that decision by the Biden administration to exempt UACs from Title 42. This has resulted in parents in Central America and elsewhere hiring smugglers to take juveniles to the border and essentially dump them into the hands of the Border Patrol. At that point, American officials fulfill their role in the giant human trafficking operation by placing the UACs with relatives or other sponsors somewhere in the U.S.
As we noted in a February posting titled “Joe Biden, Smuggler/Trafficker-in-Chief,” those juveniles are often put to work illegally in dangerous jobs to earn money to be shipped back home.
On Friday, a federal judge in Texas provided some good news by ordering the administration to cease excluding UACs from Title 42. District Court Judge Mark Pittman declared in his order that by exempting minors from the policy, the administration had violated federal administrative law and behaved in a way that was “arbitrary and capricious.” Pittman then suspended his order for one week to give the DHS time to appeal, which it will no doubt do.
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