RICHMOND, VA. (THECOUNT) — An unsettling statistic has been released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection identifying what it says are 3,000 fraudulent family unit cases in the past six months.
The report is said to highlight how cartels and smugglers take advantage of children while taking advantage of weak U.S. immigration laws.
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And what’s more startling, cartels are going to great lengths to seek asylum in the United States, by engaging in what is called “child recycling rings,” reported TheEpochTimes.
“It’s very clear that the cartel and smugglers know the weaknesses in our laws. They know that family units and unaccompanied children will be released with no consequences for their illegal entries,” acting Department of Homeland Security chief, Kevin McAleenan, said at a press conference on April 17. “The same child is brought across the border with an adult multiple times to try and gain that release that family units are required under court order,” McAleenan said.
McAleenan drew attention to the seriousness of the border crisis stating that a total of more than 4,800 illegal immigrants crossed the border on April 16, which he described as “a new record for the modern era.”
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