The mainstream media continues to froth big liberal virtue signals about the suffering foreign kiddies who are sick and worse in the border zone, blaming an inadequate rescue system for failing to keep up with the crush of humanity. Funny how the scribblers never fault the irresponsible parents (fake and genuine) who drag children for many hundreds of miles because the tykes are human tickets who guarantee entrance to stupid America.
Below, diverse parents transport their children on top of a train, a dangerous mode of travel which would probably cause social workers to recommend removing the kids if American parents did it.
Friday’s Washington Post included a big front page photo of the current border anarchy, where minors are being held longer than permitted. Great detail is included about the chaos and misery of the situation, but the foreign parents’ behavior endangering their children gets no condemnation.
Here is the accompanying Post article, reprinted by MSN.com:
Hundreds of minors held at U.S. border facilities are there beyond legal time limits, Washington Post, May 30, 2019
MCALLEN, Tex. —Many of the nearly 2,000 unaccompanied migrant children being held in overcrowded U.S. Border Patrol facilities have been there beyond legally allowed time limits, including some who are 12 or younger, according to new government data obtained by The Washington Post.
Federal law and court orders require that children in Border Patrol custody be transferred to more-hospitable shelters no longer than 72 hours after they are apprehended. But some unaccompanied children are spending longer than a week in Border Patrol stations and processing centers, according to two Customs and Border Protection officials and two other government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the unreleased data. One government official said about half of the children in custody — 1,000 — have been with the Border Patrol for longer than 72 hours, and another official said that more than 250 children 12 or younger have been in custody for an average of six days.
Because the crush of migration at the southern border in recent months has overwhelmed U.S. immigration infrastructure, initial incarceration for the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who have arrived there has averaged four days, the officials said.
“I don’t have any beds, because we’re meant to be short-term processing — not even holding,” one CBP official said of the agency’s facilities here in the Rio Grande Valley, at which some children are sleeping on mats on the floor. “I have stools and benches, but I have no beds. . . . Our facilities are not built for long-term holding, and they’re certainly not built to house children for very long at all.”
The government agencies responsible for the care, transport and sheltering of the unaccompanied children have described a bureaucratic tangle linked largely to the influx of youths, passing the blame for the delays. Because the Border Patrol is the first agency to have them in custody, it has been seeing the backup directly in its stations along the southern border.
Border officials said the immigration system is so overwhelmed that the normal conduits meant to funnel children out of Border Patrol custody and into Department of Health and Human Services shelters have broken down. Migrants are arriving faster than Customs and Border Protection can process them. Immigration and Customs Enforcement typically transfers the children to HHS shelters, but it said the Department of Homeland Security — which oversees ICE and CBP — has been facing “numerous operational challenges,” according to a spokesman.
HHS officials said that the agency is aware that 2,000 children are detained and awaiting transfer and that it has space for them — but they said the agency’s responsibility for the minors begins only once they are delivered to the department’s custody. DHS officials at multiple agencies said HHS is not placing children in shelters fast enough. (Continues)
