Friday, March 19, 2021

Kids Are Flooding The Border Again, But Beto O’Rourke Is Nowhere To Be Found

UACs are children who cross the U.S. border illegally and without a parent.

A wave of children has crashed against the United States' southern border, apparently sensing a new lack of resolve among immigration policy-makers to enforce existing laws.

Originally designed to care for a relative trickle of children entering the country alone, it has now swelled to consume a peak of $4.5 billion a year.

The UAC program is largely defensive: we cannot abide having unaccompanied alien children roaming American streets, where many will become homeless and victimized.

Under current law, children not from contiguous countries cannot be expeditiously returned to their country of origin.

Some number of children in the government's care will not be released prior to their 18th birthday, when they will be handed back to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and then returned to their country of origin.

Rather than hosting such children for years in shelter facilities, their return can and should be expedited by the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review, the agency that adjudicates immigration cases.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/19/kids-are-flooding-the-border-again-but-beto-orourke-is-nowhere-to-be-found/ 

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