Central American Minors Program: The 'Public Option' for Human Smuggling
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Fri, Jun 18th 2021 @ 9:43 am EDT by Jared Culver
The Biden Administration is shifting to their third strategy on dealing with the crisis at the border after attempting unilateral enforcement disarmament and denial. With the expansion of the illegal Central American Minors (CAM) Program, the Biden Administration is going to provide a "public option" for people looking to enter the United States and work without going through our immigration system. This latest strategy seems to operate under the principle that you cannot have a border crisis if there is no border. If the United States offers to bring everyone to the country regardless of whether they qualify for status under the law, no one has to enter illegally and the public relations problem for the President goes away.
To understand CAM, we have to go back to the first border crisis out of the three that have occurred in the last seven years. The year was 2014, and President Obama was implementing the illegal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty that he had announced in late 2012 and nearing a midterm election. Washington D.C. was abuzz that Speaker John Boehner and his allies were close to reaching an agreement for amnesty. Before the grand bargain could be struck, the border collapsed under the weight of people flooding in to take advantage of the amnesty being promised.
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/central-american-minors-program-public-option-human-smuggling
