While official Washington’s attention has been focused this week on President Trump and illegal immigrant parents separated from their children, Border Patrol agents in Arizona spotted a completely different type of family separation.
Agents say they were patrolling the border road near Lukeville, Arizona, on Tuesday night when the discovered a 6-year-old Costa Rican boy abandoned on the road in 100-degree heat.
The child told the agents he’d been dropped off on the road by his uncle, who’d told him the Border Patrol would pick him up, agents said. The boy said his mother was an illegal immigrant living in the U.S., and his uncle told the boy the American government would take him to her.
Since officials know his mother, he’ll likely eventually be delivered to her, at taxpayer expense, even though she’s in the U.S. illegally.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/20/6-year-old-illegal-immigrant-boy-abandoned-uncle-a/
So, deliver him. Arrest the mother on pickup, and deport them both.
Imagine an American parent or parents, here in the U.S. as legal as can be to be here, dragging their young children across the Sonoran or Chihuahuan desert on foot with little water or food for days. Camping under desert scrub trees among the scorpions, tarantulas and rattle snakes. And then leave the boy alone!
What would happen to them if the authorities found them? Think child welfare services might take an interest?
Agents say they were patrolling the border road near Lukeville, Arizona, on Tuesday night when the discovered a 6-year-old Costa Rican boy abandoned on the road in 100-degree heat.
The child told the agents he’d been dropped off on the road by his uncle, who’d told him the Border Patrol would pick him up, agents said. The boy said his mother was an illegal immigrant living in the U.S., and his uncle told the boy the American government would take him to her.
Since officials know his mother, he’ll likely eventually be delivered to her, at taxpayer expense, even though she’s in the U.S. illegally.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/20/6-year-old-illegal-immigrant-boy-abandoned-uncle-a/
So, deliver him. Arrest the mother on pickup, and deport them both.
Imagine an American parent or parents, here in the U.S. as legal as can be to be here, dragging their young children across the Sonoran or Chihuahuan desert on foot with little water or food for days. Camping under desert scrub trees among the scorpions, tarantulas and rattle snakes. And then leave the boy alone!
What would happen to them if the authorities found them? Think child welfare services might take an interest?
