Trump says illegals are 'using children' to manipulate America's immigration system a
Trump says illegals are 'using children' to manipulate America's immigration system and barks at Democrats in Congress to change it
*President tweeted that Democrats in Congress should help fix a loophole that helps illegal immigrants gain entry to the U.S. by bring children with them
*'Judges run the system and illegals and traffickers know how it works,' he claimed; 'They are just using children!'
Homeland Security Department has cited 'many instances where human traffickers have used children to cross the border to gain illegal entry'
*Trump is under fire for presiding over a system that has separated thousands of minors from the adults who brought them across the U.S.-Mexico border
*Law forbids holding children more than 20 days and prohibits letting them stay in adult jails; immigration law also calls border-jumping a misdemeanor crime
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:01 EDT, 11 July 2018 | UPDATED: 14:13 EDT, 11 July 2018
Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that illegal immigrants and human traffickers are 'using children' to manipulate America's immigration system and make it easier for adults to enter the U.S. without papers and remain there.
In between meetings with world leaders at an annual NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, the president also took time to blast congressional Democrats for their unwillingness to embrace a less flexible approach to immigration law.
'Democrats in Congress must no longer Obstruct – vote to fix our terrible Immigration Laws now,' Trump tweeted. 'I am watching what is going on from Europe – it would be soooo simple to fix.'
'Judges run the system and illegals and traffickers know how it works,' he claimed. 'They are just using children!'
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that illegal immigrants and human traffickers are taking advantage of weaknesses in U.S. immigration law, 'using children' to gain access
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The president's shocking tweet comes as his administration is flouting a court-ordered deadline to reunite young children with their border-jumping parents
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The Department of Homeland Security says there have been 'many instances where human traffickers have used children to cross the border to gain illegal entry to our country'
The president's accusation comes as his administration is struggling to meet court-ordered deadlines for reuniting thousands of minors with the grown-ups – often, but not always their parents – who jumped the U.S.-Mexico border with them.
As a caravan of asylum seekers made its way from Central America to the U.S. in April, the Department of Homeland Security expressed skepticism that all the children traveling with it were related to the adults.
'Unfortunately, we have seen many instances where human traffickers have used children to cross the border to gain illegal entry to our country, as they know they are unlikely to be detained,' DHS spokesman Tyler Houlton said then.
'This is one of the very loopholes we would like to see Congress end in order to gain operational control of our border.'
Dozens of children under 5 years of age left shelters on Tuesday as the Trump administration reunited them with their parents under a court-ordered deadline that the government didn't entirely meet.
Government attorneys told a federal judge on Tuesday that the administration couldn't reunite 20 children under 5 with their parents because it needed more time to track some of them down.
Some had already been deported or released into the interior of the U.S.
Judge Dana Sabraw showed no patience, saying federal agencies would have to provide good reasons for each case, or risk legal sanctions.
'These are firm deadlines. They're not aspirational goals,' Sabraw said.
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