The Trump administration can end the immigration loophole fueling MS-13 in the budget bill
Daniel Horowitz · September 19, 2019
At the beginning of the year, there was a government shutdown over the border crisis. Trump demanded funding for border security and closing the policy loopholes fueling the crisis. Instead, he agreed to sign a bill in February that added a new loophole. Not only did we erroneously continue treating self-trafficked Central American teens as refugee “unaccompanied alien children†(UACs), but Democrats slipped in a provision protecting those who sponsor them, aka commit the criminal conspiracy of trafficking, from deportation.
As I warned at the time, it’s truly hard to overstate the danger of this provision. As the current acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) director, Mark Morgan, warned, it’s precisely these self-trafficked Central American teens, “hardened young men as well as vulnerable and lost youth,†who are the most likely to join MS-13. We see stories every day of the resurgence of the gang thanks to this recruitment.
At a time when this flow needs to be shut off, our government is inviting existing illegal aliens to sponsor new ones by dangling an amnesty in front of them.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-administration-can-end-immigration-loophole-fueling-ms-13-budget-bill/
