Like a modern Pied Piper of Hamelin, Joe Biden is playing a tune irresistible to a generation of youths in Mexico and Central America. Since his inauguration, tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children, or UACs, have flooded across our southern border, responding to Joe’s siren song of welcome:
“The policy of this administration is not to expel unaccompanied children who arrive at the border.” — WH spokeswoman Jen Psaki, Feb. 23, 2021
As they have come, the UACs have filled up one detention facility after another. Most are not the toddlers the media pretends they are and not mere helpless children in need of the boundless love of Grandpa Joe. The majority are young men of 15 to 17 years, sent or sent for by relatives, not to protect them from oppression at home but to put them to work in the United States. After the relatively hard line taken by President Trump, Biden’s promise to allow them to stay has been all they needed to hear.
No one knows what became of the children lured out of Hamelin by the original Pied Piper, though historians believe the legend to be based on fact. Some accounts insist they drowned, like the rats the Piper had earlier led from the town. Others theorize they were stricken en masse by the Black Death. Or maybe they were part of another 13th-century movement, the Children’s Crusade, where 20,000 children lost their lives in a catastrophic pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Fortunately, Joe’s Kids don’t face such disastrous consequences. They simply become wards of the federal government, which now holds–coincidentally–about 20,000 of them and counting. Some are held in Health and Human Services shelters away from the border, but many are still being held–often well beyond the 72-hour legal limit–in border facilities designed for (many fewer) adult men, all along the border.
One such facility, which we’ve written about before, is at Donna, Texas. That facility currently holds about 4,000 migrants, most of them UACs and family units. They are held in a series of eight pods–known as “cages” during the Trump administration–designed to hold no more than 32 persons each. Nowadays, each has 500-600 children and adults crammed inside. Aerial photographs show a steady expansion of the facility, because–although they continue to label it “temporary”–officials know the Biden flood is upon us:
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