Our broken immigration system encourages using ‘recycled’ migrant children as smuggling pawns

For the past six years, across two administrations, young children have been used and cast aside by adults posing as their parents to cross the southern border and enter our country.

These adults use children as pawns to create “family units,” guaranteeing them eventual release into the interior of the United States. I witnessed this firsthand as a member of the White House Security Council’s Human Smuggling Cell during the Obama administration, when I documented adults posing as parents crossing with young children that were not their own.

Last August, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan, went on record to document this issue:

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