A Guatemalan man allegedly paid a family the equivalent of $130 to “rent” their eight-year-old son so that he could go to the U.S. as a “family,” federal prosecutors told a Tucson grand jury in March. He also allegedly paid another $130 (about 1,000 quetzales) to another person who created a false birth certificate for the child.
In a federal indictment reported on by Tucson.com, Maynor Velasquez Molina sought out a Guatemalan child he could use to get into the U.S. because he was told that would be “easier to get into the United States with a child,” a federal agent stated in a criminal complaint. Velasquez crossed the border with the young boy as part of a large group of 101 migrants who illegally crossed the border on February 18 just west of the Lukeville Port of Entry, the Arizona news outlet reported.
They made the illegal border crossing after traveling across Mexico by bus, the special agent stated. After being processed in the Tucson Sector, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents began talking to the man and eventually learned he paid for the use of the boy and for the false documents used in the smuggling case.
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It's probably the only time this has ever happened.
ReplyDeleteAn obvious problem is what happens after the kids' rental agreements end?
ReplyDeleteAll these people are claiming asylum because they are afraid that the wall is going to be built and then they will have no way across the border. Claiming asylum is the only way across now without sneaking across. If they lived that long in their home country with it being as bad as they claim, then why is it NOW they need to seek asylum? Why not last year, The year before that, and the year before that? It's all lies. And the government is going to give every last one of them the right to vote. Watch and see. Votes is what all this is about with those foolish democrats. And they have the nerve to complain that children were removed from their parents. Child Protective Services does it every day to Americans. Where are they when that happens??????
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