This leads to coyotes--human smugglers--charging less for adults who are accompanied by children and incentivizes illegals to bring children along with them on the dangerous trip through the desert to enter the US. For example the WaPo reports:
"Word spread through the impoverished village in the western highlands of Guatemala: Migrants traveling with a child are likely to make it past the Border Patrol and into the United States.
Agustin Gomez Perez was 47 and in debt, and that path would only deepen his obligations. But like others in the rural farming village of Yalambojoch, he decided that traveling with a child was the only way out.
He and his wife chose 8-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo for the journey because he was one of three sons, and the couple had only one daughter together.
. . . . Father and son ended up in a holding cell in Alamogordo, N.M., on Christmas Eve after days of being shuttled from one Border Patrol facility to another. They expected that the U.S. government was about to release them to await a deportation hearing, just as the smugglers had promised.
. . . . Smugglers often charge less than half the price if a child goes along, knowing that migrants can turn themselves in to border agents and will soon be released."
Sadly two such exploited children recently died in the US despite the US providing medical care as soon as the children were contacted by the Border Patrol--in one case the father of one of the children refused further medical care for his daughter.
The reality is that anyone who drags a child on such a dangerous journey is a horrible person yet they do so because Democrat's incentivize parents to exploit their children. If the Democrats would change their policies so as to protect the children we can avoid future deaths yet Democrats show no sign of doing so at least partially because the #FakeNews media is keeping the truth from the people.
The Democrats are blaming Trump because of the inevitable consequence of the Democrats policies in illegally immigrating children. This is normal for Democrats; they push for a policy that sounds good but which has serious adverse side effects and then they blame Republicans. We saw this with the 2008 crash which was caused by Democrats refusing to deal with the mortgage industry problems--principally Fannie and Freddie-- despite Republican attempts to do so. Then the Democrats, who had said everything was fine, turned around and blamed Republicans.
There is no doubt that Democrat policies are killing undocumented children, and not just by abortion, but the #FakeNews media will continue to promulgate the Democrat's lies.
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