Reuters Exposes Parents’ Complicity in UAC Smuggling Scheme
By Robert Law on March 27, 2021
The current crisis at the southern border was predictable, was preventable, and is solely attributable to President Biden and his non-enforcement policies. In the Biden administration’s first full month in office, which also happens to be the shortest month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers apprehended over 100,000 illegal aliens, consisting of single adults, family units (FMUs), and unaccompanied alien children (UACs). This is a 15-year record high, bucking the trend of unlawful border crossings going down in the winter months. Of this total, just over 29,000 are UACs, nearly double the February 2020 numbers. The UAC numbers are particularly alarming because this is a vulnerable population and CBP facilities are not equipped to hold them.
The Biden administration stopped using Title 42 emergency health authority to quickly repatriate all UACs and is instead releasing them into the interior of the country. The numbers will continue to surge throughout the spring and summer if UACs continue to get a free pass into the country.
As my colleague Art Arthur recently argued, the parents — who are most likely already in the country unlawfully — are funding the smuggling of their children to the border, and it is long past time for the U.S. government to prosecute them. As federal district judge Andrew Hanen noted in 2013, during the Obama administration-fueled UAC crisis:
https://cis.org/Law/Reuters-Exposes-Parents-Complicity-UAC-Smuggling-Scheme
