BETHPAGE, N.Y. — President Trump and his top administration officials repeatedly warned Wednesday that unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the southern border are potentially exposing the nation to eventual gang crime.
Immigrant advocates have long said that the children, primarily from Central America, are fleeing violence in their home countries and seeking safe harbor in the United States. But the Trump administration has used their plight to justify cracking down on policies that allow these migrants to be released and obtain hearings before immigration judges, rather than being deported immediately.
"We have the worst immigration laws of any country, anywhere in the world," Trump said at the roundtable held at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. "They exploited the loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors."
Trump added: "They look so innocent. They're not innocent."
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Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein detailed a gang "resurgence" that he said he witnessed firsthand as the U.S. attorney for Maryland. That rise, Rosenstein said, was "fueled" by illegal immigration and "particularly the challenge of unaccompanied minor children."
President Trump speaks during a roundtable on immigration and the gang MS-13 at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage, N.Y., May 23, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
The issue is compounded, Rosenstein said, by the fact that these migrant children must eventually be released from detention, and many never show up for their immigration proceedings before a judge. Rosenstein, quoting statistics from the Department of Homeland Security, said less than 4 percent of unaccompanied minors are ultimately removed from the United States.
"We're letting people in who are creating problems. We're letting people in who are gang members. We're also letting people in who are vulnerable," Rosenstein said. Because many of the migrant children lack families or a similar support system, they become "vulnerable to [gang] recruitment," the deputy attorney general said,
So there you go, for those saying the they're animals line was just about MS-13 here they are linking every child refugee to MS-13
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