DHS: 110 Percent Surge in Migrant Men Using Kids to Enter US, ‘Rampant Fraud’
“Educated on a legal loophole that lets migrant ‘families’ with kidsenter the United States, the Homeland Security Department reported
Tuesday that men showing up with kids at the border has spiked 110
percent in just the last two years,” Paul Bedard reports in the Washington Examiner.
“The department noted that children could be used by smugglers and
drug traffickers to enter the country. Families are also using fraud to
game the immigration system. The department said that 170 families have
been caught lying about their relationships to enter the U.S.”
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“The mainstream media and Democrats have criticized the Trump
administration’s response to the migrant caravans storming the nation’s
southern border. However, many of the critiques either don’t provide
full context or are factually incorrect,” Fred Lucas writes in The Daily Signal.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen explained that
historically, less than 10 percent of those claiming asylum from
Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador are found eligible. “Most of these
migrants are seeking jobs or to join family who are already in the U.S.”
In the Idaho Statesman,
Cynthia Sewell writes that students at Wilder Elementary School were
greeted yesterday by two special guests: Apple CEO Tim Cook and Advisor
to the President Ivanka Trump. The two guests “embarked on a nearly
hourlong tour of the school, visiting classrooms and watching students
demonstrate their technological skills on the handheld devices Apple
provided the school district nearly three years ago,” Sewell reports.
“The Trump administration on Wednesday announced new sanctions
against the vice president of Nicaragua and a top national security
adviser to President Daniel Ortega. The sanctions were imposed through
an executive order signed by President Trump Tuesday and follow similar
escalations against officials from Cuba and Venezuela,” Rafael Bernal
reports for The Hill.
“This Administration is committed to holding the Ortega regime
accountable for the violent protests and widespread corruption that have
led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent Nicaraguans and destroyed
their economy,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
