Border Patrol agents struggling to deal with the flood of illegal alien minors are not even deporting teens with known gang affiliations, following Obama administration policy to “act in the best interest of the child.”
Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, told of a recent case where a teenage member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who had no criminal record in the U.S. was reunited with family here, “If he’s a confirmed gang member in his own country, why are we letting him in here?”
“I’ve heard people come in and say, ‘You’re going to let me go, just like you let my mother go, just like you let my sister go. You’re going to let me go as well, and the government’s going to take care of us,'” Cabrera says. “Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don’t think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it’s going to get worse.”
Art Del Cueto, president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 2544 in Tucson, confirmed that teens with gang tattoos are treated like other illegal alien minors: “It’s upsetting that a lot of them are 16 or 17 years old and a lot of them are not going to face deportation.”
Both Cabrera and Cueto said Central American television, radio and other media are encouraging the illegal migration, telling people they will be allowed to stay in the U.S. That message is confirmed when the apprehended illegals are released. Says Cabrera, “When these people get released they call back home and they say, ‘Hey, you know what? We got released, and if you come with your family they’re going to release you as well.'”
Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380337/teenage-latin-border-horde-ryan-lovelace
Posted 6/14/14 by Andrew Lewis