The Mexican drug cartels make a lot of money by smuggling illegal aliens into the United States. President Trump had tried to fix the problem but was sabotaged by the Democrats, wimpy RINOs and activist judges.
The cartels took note and now they have revived an earlier practice of using children to get adults into the country, then the children are moved back into Mexico to accompany the next set of illegal aliens. This was being done before but was halted before the courts threw out Trump’s reforms and now, they are back at it again.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border are using “recycling rings,” a process in which children are passed back across the border in order to help multiple adults gain illegal entry.
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen mentioned the practice Wednesday during a hearing with the House Committee on Homeland Security, stating, “The children are being used as pawns to get into our country.”
“We have encountered recycling rings, where innocent young people are used multiple times to help illegal aliens gain illegal entry,” she explained.
Current immigration law limits the length of time that family units can be held in detention at the border to 20 days, meaning these groups of illegal immigrants are usually released to the interior of the United States while they await court proceedings.
In some cases, the children and “parents” in question are not even related — DHS separated 170 adult and child units between April 19 and Sept. 30 last year because the persons involved had no familial relation.