Unaccompanied child migrant surge

 NY Post:

The new faces of the southern border crisis belong to a pair of kids — one just a toddler — who were rescued as they wandered alone, scared and hungry along a chain-link fence separating the US and Mexico.

Exclusive photos obtained by The Post show a Highway Patrol officer directing the boys, who appear to be brothers, to a gap in the fence overseen by the National Guard in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Both children carried plastic bottles of water, with the younger one needing both tiny hands to hold his and the bigger boy grasping him by the wrist.

Another heart-wrenching shot shows them sitting on a cooler and scarfing down snacks on the American side of the border, as the older one stared vacantly into the distance with his arm draped over the younger one’s shoulders.

Later, the bigger boy was photographed helping a Border Patrol agent load the smaller boy into a green-and-white van so they could be taken with other migrants to a nearby processing center.

The disturbing images emerged Tuesday amid mounting criticism of President Biden’s immigration policies and ahead of an expected record surge of unaccompanied migrant kids into the US.

The Department of Homeland Security anticipates that 148,000 to 161,000 unaccompanied minors will cross the border this fiscal year, according to an Interior Department report obtained by the Washington Examiner last week.

The January 2022 projections exceed the monthly levels from fiscal 2021, when a record 47,000 migrant children entered the US without relatives.

More than 1.2 million single-adult migrants have been picked up by US immigration officials in the 2022 fiscal year. Another 101,024 unaccompanied minors were also encountered by US officials, data shows.

Most children who arrive by themselves at the border are shielded from deportation under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. They are typically housed at the Department of Health and Human Services until officials find an adult in the US to care for them.
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It is hard to imagine responsible parents sending kids to do this.  That there are this many irresponsible parents on the other side of the border is troubling.  Mexican authorities need to look into the problem and deal with it.

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