Thread: Smuggling/Deporting Unaccompanied children..shameful

ction 4 Investigates: Deporting Children

Updated: March 12, 2008 07:03 AM
Deporting Children


Reported by Victor Castillo

The number of unaccompanied Mexican children who have entered the United States illegally and been deported from the Rio Grande Valley has more than quadrupled over the past few years.

The Mexican Consulate in McAllen told Action 4 News that the number of unaccompanied minors who have been repatriated to Mexico has increased from 384 in 2001 to more than 1,700 in 2007.

"In the two months that have past and the first week of March, we have almost 400 children," said Mexican Consul Miriam Medel.

The minors range from newborns to late teens.

Once they're captured by the Border Patrol's McAllen sector, they are repatriated back to Reynosa.

The children are then temporarily housed at a shelter until family members come to pick them up.

The repatriation process is overseen by the Mexican Consulate.

Luis Carlos Adame runs the children's shelter.

He says the kids sleep in bunkbeds, receive food, clothing and medication if necessary to keep them healthy.

Our cameras were rolling when six minors are taken here by Mexican immigration agents.

Two of the kids started running away in a last ditch effort to escape.

In today's tour of the Reynosa shelter, Action 4 News found two children of Honduran descent who claimed to be Mexican so that they could be deported to Mexico instead of Honduras.

"The coyotes...what they do is they separate families," Consul Medel said. "They send the parents through the river and they send the young children, young children in a car through the bridge with a U.S. Citizen who claims to be his mother."

Small spaces and hidden compartments are where many of the kids seek refuge.

It's not the case for 17-year old "Adan".

He says he tried walking for days to avoid the Falfurrias checkpoint only to be captured by Border Patrol.

"Border Patrol agents detained me when I was hiding with a group of immigrants," Adan said in Spanish. "They located us with a helicopter."

Medel said they see a lot of cases like Adan's.

"The border patrol is being very efficient in getting the children and in stopping them, and giving them back to us and then ultimately back to Mexico," she said.

The rise in the number of minors repatriated to Mexico comes as the United States is looking at building hundreds of miles of border fencing while legislators try to solve the illegal immigration problem.

Last ditch efforts to bring the kids in they left behind......and they talk about enforcing laws as seperating families. Many are already seperated long before they are finally deported.

Oh! The shame of it all Wait! I have a solution to the shameful problem!! STAY THE HECK OUT OF OUR COUNTRY TO BEGIN WITH! Spend the money you pay the coyote to help your family in Mexico!!

It astounds me that these IA's have NO problem whatsoever separating their familes and giving their children over to smugglers and they have the CAJONES to whine that ICE separates families!

I think it's shameful that a so called parent would enter the US illegally while leaving their children behind in mexico!

Why don't you do an article on that shame Victor Castillo

The number of unaccompanied Mexican children who have entered the United States illegally and been deported from the Rio Grande Valley has more than quadrupled over the past few years.

1. How many of these children's parents were unsuccesssful crossing the border--what would have become of the children in those circumstances?
2. How were the children to be reunited with parents in the U.S.?
3. How many of these children were sold by family or kidnapped to be sold in the U.S. for illegal purposes?

Post by LawEnforcer:
Mexico deported 1,020 children in 2007!

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-96117-mexi ... ldren+2007

"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence." Article IV Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution.

The criminal recklessness of the parents who entrust their children to criminal human smugglers who are armed and dangerous is just astonishing. None of us would entrust a total stranger (let alone one that is a self-professed armed criminal) to take our children to the bus stop. Americans have been arrested and their children taken away for leaving children unattended in vehicles or in their own homes. These parents place their kids lives in danger and don't seem to care about it at all...then they whine if they are deported? Why isn't the Mexican government prosecuting these parents for child endangerment.....don't they value their own young citizens? Anyone who does this is unfit to be a parent.