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Jack Beavers
Border Crisis: Abandoned, Kidnapped Kids
9 days ago
Some disturbing reports are emerging about the plight of migrant kids along the U.S. Border with Mexico. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) says their troopers have recovered over 900 children who were left abandoned or found smuggled in vehicles along the Texas-Mexico Border alone. Nationwide, the DPS says 320,000 unaccompanied children are unaccounted for who have crossed the border into the United States.
When you look at some of the individual stories involving those children, the situation becomes even more horrifying:
For example: last month U.S. Homeland Security Investigators (HSI) in El Paso, Texas worked with their Mexican counterparts to rescue a nine-year-old Honduran boy who was being held for ransom by a Mexican Cartel in a stash house in Juarez. The child has since been returned to his country.
In San Luis, Arizona U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Officers discovered that two Mexican children "asleep" in the back of a car being driven across the border from San Luis Rio Colorado (Sonora) had been drugged by a U.S. citizen claiming them as her children as she attempted to drive them across the border into that state.
Back in Texas, DPS Officers & U.S. Border Patrol Agents have been dealing with the plight of "unaccompanied minors" along the border with Mexico for some time now.
The ages of some of these abandoned children is shocking. In 2021, Border Patrol Agents found athree-month-old boy and a two-year-old girlfrom Honduras abandoned by smugglers (and left for dead) on the banks of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas.
In 2022, the Border Patrol took custody of 152,000 unaccompanied children at or near the U.S.-Mexico Border. Most of the children were from Central America.
In March, 2022 more than 8,000 unaccompanied children taken into custody at the border have been turned over to adult sponsors in Texas, more than any other U.S. state.
More often than not, the children abandoned by human smugglers along the Texas Border with Mexico are a bit older - but that does not make their plight any less hazardous.
Most of the children present officers from Texas, Arizona, and Federal Agents with contact information for relatives in the U.S. - although some critics worry about the accuracy of that information.
Is enough being done to protect children being smuggled into the U.S. along our Southern Border?
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humans are worse than animals the brute beast inside us no remorse or feelings at all 😩😩
Sharon Mcgee
7d ago
send them back it's not the Americans responsibility to take care of them y'all doing too much the parents did this on purpose that's horrible this is chaotic I guess they are desperate to help their children we can't say we won't do it until we come to the fork in the road I'm so sad for them I have children and grandchildren that's awful poor babies 😩😩😩
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