Associate Chief of U.S. Border Patrol Intel Carl McClafferty said Friday that human traffickers are using children to smuggle illegal immigrants across the border as a family unit and recycling the children back across the border to be used again.
October 2008 was the first time the Border Patrol ever had more family units than single adults apprehended, McClafferty said during a White House meeting on combating human smuggling on the southern border.
“In Yuma, Arizona, we were catching groups of Guatemalans -- family units -- turning themselves into Border Patrol, crossing around where the fence ends. And I just started looking into it and found that some of the sponsors, after they were released, were the same person, with the same address and same phone number,” he said.
“So they reached out to HSI, to Charleston, South Carolina, where these people were going. HSI looked into it. There's something going on here. ‘Why don't you come out, and we'll do this case together?’ We went up to Charleston, followed a group that actually got released. They were picked up by the sponsor,” McClafferty said.
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2 comments:
I was told personally by a legal Mexican lady that this goes on in South and Central America for years now. Babies are born for the sole purpose of being sold to the smugglers so they can pass them out like water bottles to illegals seeking entry.
Before this they were having babies just to sell to "orphanages" for Americans to adopt. I looked into this and there were American individuals from these "adoption agencies" charged with adoption scams.
They're not our concern, except to move them back to the places from which they came. Keep to the task.
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