When the Truth About Border Security Doesn’t Make The Cut
avatar By Matt O'Brien March 26, 2019 1 Comment
A significant portion of the media’s immigration reporting is both vague and misleading. A recent story in The Cut is a perfect example: Titled “9-Year-Old Girl Detained at Border for Providing ‘Inconsistent Information,’†it purports to call out U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for unreasonably detaining a young child.
We’re told that Julia Isabel Amparo Medina, a U.S. citizen, was attempting to cross the U.S./Mexico border at the San Ysidro port of entry, when CBP officers took the youngster into custody and held her for over 32 hours. Of course, what The Cut glosses over is how the child attempted to cross the border and why she was detained.
Apparently, Julia and her brother Oscar Amparo Medina live in Tijuana and commute to school in the United States. On the day Julia was taken into immigration custody, a family friend named Michelle Cardenas offered to drive the Amparo Medina children to school, along with her own kids. However, when Ms. Cardenas found herself running late and in a slow-moving inspection line, she told the children to “just walk across the border.â€
https://immigrationreform.com/2019/03/26/when-the-truth-about-border-security-doesnt-make-the-cut-immigrationreform-com/
