Most American citizens don’t know this, but when an “unaccompanied minor” illegal alien is captured by the Border Patrol, he isn’t sent back to his country. Instead he’s placed with a sponsor in our country.
This is why the U.S. is a magnet for illegal immigration. Our government is run by fools who put a higher priority on the welfare of non-citizens than they do the welfare of the people who pay their salary.
As I said, citizens don’t know our idiotic rules, but Central and South America does.
Over the last six years Fox News reports 227,149 unaccompanied minors have been resettled in the United States. Many of these “loosely supervised youths lacking in language and coping skills right into the waiting arms of criminal gangs.”
Take the situation in New York state. According to Fox, “In June 2015, MS-13 members and El Salvadoran immigrants Jose Cornejo, 17, Bryan Larios, 18 and Joel Escobar, 17, all of Brentwood, NY were charged with the brutal rape of a 16 year-old girl on a local golf course.”
MS-13 is one of the most violent Central American gangs and it now has a firm foothold in the U.S. due to the misguided “compassion” (at our expense) of Democrats and big business Republicans.
The Texas Department of Public Safety Gang Threat Assessment found the gang boasts 800 members in Texas alone and the DPS “explicitly blamed the flood of unaccompanied children being placed in the state.”
The Threat Assessment stated, “The influx of illegal alien gang members crossing the border into Texas in 2014, along with reports of extremely violent murders committed by its members in the Houston area, positions the gang as one of the most significant gang threats in the state for this upcoming year.”
Andrea Helling, the mouthpiece for the Dept. of Health and Human Services, is unmoved by the gang invasion and its threat to citizens. She pontificates, “Our responsibility is providing a safe place for these children.”
How about the place they came from?
Texas and New York aren’t the only locales experiencing unwanted growth in gang membership. MS-13 is active in Maryland and Virginia. Fairfax County which abuts Washington, D.C. has seen a 160 percent increase in MS-13 related incidents through last April, compared to the year before.
Hispanic gang leaders are no doubt amazed that Uncle Sam is providing the raw material for their criminal enterprise at no charge. I’m amazed, too, but for a different reason.
Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Reagan, is a Newsmax TV analyst. A syndicated columnist and author, he chairs The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Michael is an in-demand speaker with Premiere speaker’s bureau. Read more reports from Michael Reagan — Go Here Now.