Half Of Children Separated At The Border Came With Criminals Or Non-Parents
By Matt | Contributor | July 13, 2018 11:26AM
What’s the truth about families being separated at the border?
As of mid-June, there were roughly 12,000 children in the custody of Health and Human Services. The overwhelming majority, roughly 10,000 of the 12,000 kids now in HHS care, were sent unaccompanied by their parents across the border. Of the remaining 2,000 who were separated from parents, that was entirely by choice. There’s only a separation if the accompanying family member decides to apply for asylum at the border.
There has been a surge in those claiming asylum at ports of entry across the U.S. border, and one explanation is that it’s an attempt at finding a loophole to the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy towards illegal immigration, under which anyone caught crossing the border illegally is criminally prosecuted. (RELATED: Hypocrite? Mexican President-Elect to Create Border Police Force). The zero-tolerance policy has been working, with illegal border crossings falling 18% between May and June, according to statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. But in their place, a rise in so-called asylum seekers.
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