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U.S. immigration authorities released 6,051 unaccompanied illegal minors to sponsor families last month, according to data released by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and collected by The Daily Caller.
But if that is supposed to sound comforting, it’s not. According to The Daily Caller, most of these “sponsor” families were illegal immigrants themselves.
Unaccompanied illegal alien children are being placed with relatives who are illegals — not only reinforcing a bad trend, but contributing to an already staggering number of illegal immigrants living free inside the United States.
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In February of this year, the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and National Interest, chaired by attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., stated that fewer than 4 percent of all unaccompanied minors between fiscal year 2014 and the first half of fiscal year 2016 were actually removed from the country.
Sessions’ website notes that as of February of this year that “[i]n just the last two and a half fiscal years, 126,902 purportedly ‘unaccompanied’ illegal alien juveniles have been apprehended by CBP (Customs and Border Protection).
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“During the same period, roughly 4,680 were removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or roughly 3.6 percent of the total apprehensions…”
Republican lawmakers were incensed, according to the Associated Press. They believed, as AP puts it, that “releasing unaccompanied children to sponsors who lack legal papers encourages illegal immigration and reduces the chances the children will attend deportation hearings in immigration court.”
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., believes that President Barack Obama is, in a sense, emboldening illegal immigrants to try to smuggle in their family members, since there is very little consequence for failure.
“Since the president refuses to enforce our immigration laws, unlawful immigrants in the United States consistently pay criminal organizations along the border thousands of dollars to smuggle their family members into the United States,” he said.
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When President-elect Donald Trump takes office in 2017, it is unlikely that this pattern will continue.
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