by Ian Smith
Last
week, the lawlessness of Obama’s non-deportation policy came home to
roost when Homeland Security (DHS) estimated 60,000 “unaccompanied alien
children” were expected to enter the country illegally this year. The
figures have since gone up to 90,000, which is more than a ten-fold increase from 2011. Unsurprisingly, according to interviews
with those caught, the news waves are directly related to Obama’s
rolling orders to DHS to ramp up amnesty efforts wherever possible.
Yesterday, Senator Cornyn
of Texas called Obama’s continued amnesty push an “extremely dangerous
incentive for children” and “a painful example of the law of unintended
consequences.”
Stories have been ongoing
of illegal alien children, teens and adults being flown around the
Border States in search of any government facility that may have
available space. After it was reported last week that Greyhound stations
in Phoenix were becoming drop-off points for detained-illegals flown in
from border-checkpoints in Texas, Arizona’s Governor Brewer fired off a
letter to the President asking him to end his “unconscionable policy.”
Considering the depth and scale of Obama’s
subversion of our immigration laws, the prospect of thousands more
children and teens illegally entering the country won’t likely change
his approach to border security any time soon. After all, as it was
revealed last December, DHS has actually been directly and proactively
facilitating human-trafficking for quite some time.
In the case of U.S. v. Nava-Martinez,
border agents busted a repeat-felon attempting to smuggle a 10-year old
El Salvadorian girl across a checkpoint in Texas later discovering that
the operation was organized by the girl’s mother, an illegal alien
living in Virginia. But when the agents contacted DHS officials they
refused to arrange for her arrest. Instead, according to Judge Andrew
Hanen of the Southern District Court of Texas, DHS “successfully
complet(ed) the mission of the criminal conspiracy” by flying the child
to her mother in Virginia at taxpayer expense.
The order issued by Judge Hanen is a crushing rebuke of Obama’s DHS. In it he warns that such immoral and illegal policies would dramatically increase the number of minors
attempting to make the dangerous trip across the border. With DHS’s new
estimates and the huge problems hitting the Border States, we can now
see how right the good judge was.
In just the previous month alone, Judge Hanen
had seen four cases of “DHS completing [a] criminal conspiracy… by
delivering [minors caught at the border] to the custody of parents
illegally living in the United States.” In none of the cases were the
children detained or the illegal alien parent deported.
Besides the concerns that DHS’s facilitation
of illegal activities works to decrease border agents’ morale and helps
fund drug cartels (the chief operators of human smuggling rings), the
remarkably prescient judge had noted that such a policy “undermines the
deterrent effect the laws may have and inspires others to commit further
violations.” The consequences of this undermining effect we’re now
seeing and hopefully it’s becoming clear to the elite and media classes
just how dangerous it is to play politics with immigration enforcement.
Since the first amnesty in 1986, the illegal alien population has ballooned from 3 million to 12 million
with most of that increase coming in the last decade. Obama’s first
administrative amnesty in 2012, the “Deferred Action for Children
Arrivals” program, applied specifically to children and young adults,
which, along with further mini-amnesties since, has acted as an
announcement to the people of Mexico and Central America that the US is
not at all serious about its border security.
Who knows what the next round of figures from
DHS will be, but it’s possible they’ll be double or even triple the
recent estimates. The same goes for deaths at the border,
which have already been on the increase since Obama started his
amnesty-push. As Judge Hanen devastatingly wrote at the close of his
order, if DHS persists with such a policy, “more children are going to
be harmed, and DHS will be partly responsible because it encourages this
kind of Russian roulette.” It’s now time for Obama and Democrats to
finally consider the consequences of their policies, which harm citizens
on both sides of the border, and turn off the amnesty magnet.
Ian Smith
Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ian-smith/obamas-border-crisis-facilitating-child-trafficking/
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