Thread: Unaccompanied Children Flow over Border in Weekend Surge

MISSION, Texas—Breitbart Texas witnessed the apprehension of 11 unaccompanied minors in the past 24-hours. The apprehensions occurred near ground zero of the current border crisis as the minors turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents less than a quarter-mile from the Rio Grande River. The minors ranged from about four to 17-years-of-age.

Breitbart Texas came upon the scene of two Border Patrol agents gathering identifying information from the minors who had just entered the United States illegally. The agents were dispatched to the dirt road just east of the Anzalduas International Bridge after cameras detected the children walking on the road.
One of the agents commented that he had been working this sector for many years and has never seen anything like this flood of minors. Another agent said he had recently been assigned temporary duty to this sector from another sector in Texas because of the volume of illegal crossings in the Rio Grande Sector.
There are over 600 Border Patrol agents working in the Rio Grande Sector at this time, according to a Border Patrol agent.
Just over one month ago, Breitbart Texas Managing Director Brandon Darby shocked the world with the release of over forty photographs showing the inhumane conditions the unaccompanied minors have been living in since they turned themselves in to U.S. authorities. At first, officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency attempted to deny the legitimacy of the photos, but their claim was eventually proven to be false.
Once again, no adult males were found with this group of minors. The adult males appear to take a different pathway to the country. This destination is often a stash house in Houston, San Antonio or Dallas.
One of the dangerous portions of the journey is located around the town of Falfurrias in Brooks County where the illegal immigrants attempt to evade the Border Patrol checkpoint. Often they are dropped off in the southern part of the county and told to hike for several days through the dangerous heat and desert-like conditions of the expansive local ranches. If they become injured or cannot keep up, they are left to die in the fields by their smugglers.
Bob Price is a staff writer and a member of the original Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter@BobPriceBBTX.

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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Bush Intercontinental Airport is now being used as a transportation hub to move undocumented children caught at the Texas border to other parts of the country.

Undocumented children caught on Texas border arriving at Bush IAH
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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Bush Intercontinental Airport is now being used as a transportation hub to move undocumented children caught at the Texas border to other parts of the country.




Undocumented children caught on Texas border arriving at Bush IAH

Author: Phil Archer, Reporter, parcher@kprc.com

Published On: Jul 03 2014 09:27:27 AM CDT Updated On: Jul 03 2014 07:24:34 PM CDT

Undocumented children caught on Texas border arriving at Bush IAH
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HOUSTON - The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Bush Intercontinental Airport is now being used as a transportation hub to move undocumented children caught at the Texas border to other parts of the country.
In a press release put out Thursday in response to questions from Local 2 News, Barbara Gonzalez with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said, "ICE ERO officers from Houston and elsewhere will facilitate the transfer of unaccompanied children from the Rio Grande Valley through the Houston airport to the Department of Health and Human Services at locations around the country, as required by law.”
Customs officers previously used airports in Harlingen and San Antonio to do the same job, but the hub was moved to Houston because Bush Intercontinental has a greater number of connecting flights.
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The children are taken to a staging area at Bush Airport where they are paired with an escort agent and flown to other locations around the country to be housed with relatives or in foster homes.
"There may be a facility available in Boston who has space available for a family and children, and we're obviously the network that would get them to Boston," said Congressman Gene Green.
Government sources say the children won't be housed in Houston unless there is a flight cancellation that can't be rescheduled within 12 hours.
Moving the transport hub to Houston was deemed necessary because of the large numbers of unescorted children currently cross the border illegally in south Texas.
Houstonians advocating fair treatment for immigrants held a press conference in Terminal D at the airport Thursday afternoon.
Cesar Espinoza with F.I.E.L. said, "We want to point out this is a humanitarian crisis, it is not a political crisis. This is something that involves children, so special care needs to be taken of them."
Espinoza says he and other advocates were concerned about a replay of the demonstration in California early this week where anti-immigrant protestors blocked buses carrying undocumented women and children to a detention center near San Diego.



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