REPORT: Trump directs ICE to find and deport unaccompanied minors
Get ready for the entire left to meltdown over a new directive from the White House to ICE.
According to new reports, President Trump is directing ICE to locate unaccompanied minors for deportation.
The media is going to stir the pot on this, but there is some logic to the decision.
Not What They Seem
Reuters initially broke the report that the deportation web has expanded to now include unaccompanied minors.
The outlet reported, "The Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors."
Part of the memo outlined that this is part of a more significant effort to ensure children are not being victimized in human trafficking schemes.
But there is something else to this as well.
In 2021, reports surfaced regarding adults who were posing as underage children to get across the border.
At the time, Border Patrol stated, “Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) frequently recruit and exploit individuals, convincing them to pose as unaccompanied children (UCs) as they are smuggled into the United States."
The report found that 559 adults were caught in the El Paso sector alone who had posed as underage children.
Jessica Vaughan, who works for the Center of Immigration Studies, further explained that roughly 30% of MS-13 gang members who had been "arrested in recent years by ICE originally entered the US as unaccompanied minors."
Wendy Young, the President of Kids in Need of Defense, commented on the new order, stating, "The unique needs of children require the administration to ensure a level of care that takes into account their vulnerability while it determines whether they need long-term protection in the United States.
"To be successful in its goals, the government must partner with legal service providers and the vast network of private sector pro bono partners who provide millions of dollars in free legal services to ensure children understand the process and can share their reasons for seeking safety in the United States.
"Then the government can decide with confidence who needs protection and who can safely return to their country of origin."
Last year, a report from the DHS internal watchdog reported that more than 32,000 children could not be accounted for, having failed to report and ICE had no current location information on them.
Republicans claimed the number was more like 300,000, but that number has been pushed back on by the media, as the GOP failed to provide context to back up its claims.
Regardless, these are children we are talking about, and something clearly has to be done to ensure their safety.
I agree with the deportation, as I believe these children are often used as pawns for chain migration as well as being exploited in human trafficking rings.
Find their parents in their country of origin and send them back. It may sound heartless, but the alternative on this side of the border often appears to be far worse.