On Migrant Journey, Children Bring a Discount
Washington Post, by Joshua Partlow & Nick Miroff 11/24/18
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20181124/281492162367831
Notes from Breitbart’s Report of New WaPo Article
Human smugglers slash their $10,000 per-person price when migrants bring children up to the U.S. border to exploit asylum loopholes, says the Washington Post.
One immigrant, [Denys Adelmo] Mejia said he saved thousands of dollars by traveling with a child. His smuggler would have charged $10,000 if he had been traveling alone, he said; with Elizabeth Dayana, it cost $4,500 for both of them. He has three years to pay this off — in monthly installments — or his mother could lose her house. “When you come with a child, [the smuggler] only delivers you to the Border Patrol,” said Mejia. “When you’re coming alone, they have to take you all the way across the desert.”
The reward for bringing children is so high that villages are losing many children and migrants even are making deals to bring other people’s children, and then claim them as their own kids at the U.S. border, the Post reported: “This is the most serious problem that we have,” said Juan Jose Arita Rivera, the town’s mayor.
Between April and Setpmber, U.S border officials separated 170 migrants from the children they claimed to be their own children, the Washington Post said. The article notes that many of the migrants bring the children who are cousins and buy faked documents from corrupt officials.
In fiscal year 2018, for example, more than 100,000 migrants used this progressive-opened loophole to migrate into the United States, past the guards and fences at the border. Nearly all were released because of furious progressive opposition to Trump’s short-lived policy of holding adults at packed detention centers while sending the children to shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Once released, migrants must convince judges to approve their asylum. The vast majority are rejected — but most remain in the United States because few are caught and sent home by immigration officers.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/11/24/washington-post-human-smugglers-reward-migrants-who-bring-children-to-the-border/
Anon’s comments:
The quoted WaPo article also describes situations where a child arrives at the border without an adult: “Such arrangements are known euphemistically as “adoptions.” This and other remarks (see screenshots) tell us that the authors are well-aware that current US policy encourages child-trafficking.