The number of adult migrants posing as children at border surging
By Kerry J. Byrne
November 13, 2021 8:57am Updated
Dozens of adults posing as unaccompanied minors have been found illegally crossing the southern border in recent weeks, according to disturbing new data from the El Paso Sector of the US Border Patrol.
Criminal enterprises use the twisted ruse to exploit the favorable treatment the US gives children caught at the border without parents, officials said.
Agents encountered “more than” 55 adults posing as children in the El Paso area since Oct. 1 — and 559 adults were caught in the sector purporting to be children in the previous fiscal year — the Border Patrol said Friday.
“Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) frequently recruit and exploit individuals, convincing them to pose as unaccompanied children (UCs) as they are smuggled into the United States,” officials said in a statement.
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