Seven allegedly unaccompanied minors were flown into New York from Texas and when they got off the plane, the had scruffy facial hair and shaving kits. They were brought in under the cover of darkness and appear to be grown men.
Immigrants coming here to join MS-13 often pose as unaccompanied minors but many seem to be much older. At least 148 have been caught over the past few months doing just that. There are no stats on how many successfully infiltrate the system.
Under cover of darkness and in the custody of the federal government, migrant children have been coming in waves to New York, taken from their parents after crossing the southern border.
Speaking outside Cayuga Centers in Harlem, one of a group of social service agencies in the state that contract with the federal government to take in unaccompanied minors, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday afternoon said 350 children had come through the center and that 239 of them were currently in Cayuga’s care; the agency is not residential, but places children in temporary foster care and runs day programs.
Kirstjen Nielsen: So I want to be clear on a couple things. The vast majority, vast, vast, majority of the children who are in the care of HHS right now, 10,000 of the 12,000, were sent here alone by their parents. That’s when they were separated. Somehow we’ve conflated everything.
“A group of seven boys, who appeared to be unaccompanied migrant children, arrived at New York’s La Guardia Airport from Texas on Wednesday night. Read more:”
A group of seven boys, who appeared to be unaccompanied migrant children, arrived at New York’s La Guardia Airport from Texas on Wednesday night. Read more: https://t.co/6M83JFEP26. pic.twitter.com/tBASq8j0c3
— New York Times Video (@nytvideo) June 21, 2018
“I’m at LaGuardia airport in NYC. Youth & children separated from their families are landing in terminal B taken to shelters in Westchester & LI. @AmericanAir must stop enabling Trump’s deportation force.”
https://twitter.com/CrisAlexJimenez/status/1009617592926040064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Do these look like kids to you? Of course not. Makes you consider the bigger possibilities.