Thread: Why aren't Child Endangerment Laws enforced

Why aren't Child Endangerment Laws enforced against Illegal Aliens?

Why are illegal aliens not prosecuted for child endangerment? The media is quick to condemn American citizens for child endangerment but give illegal aliens a free pass. I just heard Geraldo condemn the parents of a sixteen year girl for allowing her to sail her boat around the world.

The media is quick to plead for the case of illegal aliens and their families being torn apart. Pass the Dream Act for children of illegal aliens, (It isn’t the children’s fault that their parents brought them to the U.S.)

We saw the little girl tell the Presidents wife that she was afraid that the president was going to send her mother away because she didn’t have papers. Nothing was done even though this was a clear case of child endangerment.

Child endangerment is a criminal offense that involves the subjection of minor children to inappropriate or dangerous situations. It is not the same as child abuse, which involves direct harm to children, but carries a similar penalty in the American judicial system.

The purpose of child endangerment laws is to keep children from witnessing adult or illegal activity, and to protect them from situations in which they might get hurt.

We constantly hear of the dangers and deaths of illegal aliens by the smugglers and conditions by which these immigrants sneak into the U.S. Yet we do not hold the parents responsible for the danger they place their children in. Instead of feeling outraged we are supposed to feel pity.

Every time a illegal alien gives birth to a child in the U.S. knowing full well they are breaking the law and might be deported they are endangering the welfare of that child.

Often, parents and others responsible for children break child endangerment laws without realizing that their behavior is criminal. For example, a father who has too many drinks while he is watching his four-year-old son could be prosecuted for child endangerment because he was inebriated while he was responsible for a child. Other examples might include exposing children to illegal drugs, pornography, firearms, chemicals, criminal activity and domestic violence.

Most child endangerment cases are discovered during the investigation of other crimes. For example, people who operate methamphetamine labs out of their homes often have children, and when the meth labs are discovered, the owners are additionally charged with child endangerment. On a lesser scale, parents who are pulled over for speeding can also be charged with child endangerment if infants are not secured in car seats or if children are not wearing their seat belts. .

Cases of child endangerment are handled by a wide variety of professionals, depending on where and how the endangerment was discovered. Medical personnel who notice signs of child endangerment can call CPS (Child Protective Services) to request an investigation by a case worker. Police officers, school officials and the courts are also involved.

Individuals who are convicted of child endangerment face imprisonment, fines and loss of custody of the children they have endangered.

So would someone explain to me why the American public isn’t outraged and screaming for illegal aliens to be prosecuted for child endangerment?

I brought this up nearly 10 years ago and I've never been able to understand this either. CPS has stayed silent on this matter for too long.

Illegals put their kids in harms way all the time, making them trek across the desert, ride in the trunks or dashboards of cars, many times with complete strangers who are involved with the drug and human trafficking trade. They force their kids to live in houses with several other adults, some of whom are unknown to the parents themselves and the kids end up being molested and/or murdered, exposed to drugs, weapons, domestic violence, etc. If the kids of these irresponsible parents are caught crossing the border, they're just handed back over to their parents in Mexico or handed over to relatives here for more mental, physical and emotional abuse. No one has ever filed a child endangerment suit against these illegals as far as I know and THAT needs to change!! Where is CPS on this? Where is the OUTRAGE? ICE should start keeping these kids, finding their parents here or be able to go after the parents in Mexico that put them in danger and prosecuting them like any other criminal!

Maybe we should start a campaign for the prosecution of parents who put their kids in this predicament? The parents aren't being held responsible for endangering their kids along with all of the other rules and laws they violate in this country! They try to make American citizens feel guilty for the predicaments these people put their kids into....when they put these kids through mental anguish, constantly having to lie and hide because the parents are here committing crimes. Most of these kids don't care which side of the border they live on...they just want to feel safe and be with their parents. Their parents aren't providing that kind of security for them when they are dragging many of them here against their will. It's NOT our laws that are causing this, it's the adults' non-compliance to those laws that are causing these children to be mistreated!

I'd like to know the answer to this as well.
For many years here in El Paso there has been this large family group of Tarahumara Mexican Indian people who are and have been what I call "professional beggars". Every day you would see them all over town parking their butts in front of business and panhandling. They all had children with them on a daily basis from newborns to middle school ages. Out in the hot sun or bitter cold all day long. They were obviously using the children as props for their panhandling business. We even heard that in Juarez there was some kind of kid renting business just for that purpose. It would really piss me off and I couldn't help but wonder how they were able to get away with subjecting those kids to that kind of thing. Finally I had had enough and I decided to follow them from spot to spot and video tape (already hip to the fact that I would need proof) what they were doing. One day I watched two of the "daddy" men get off a city bus with very young toddlers. One man went one way with two kids and the other took off walking down the road with the other kid. I decided to follow the walking pair, the others had parked their butts in front of a bank. I really couldn't believe it! I followed the pair for like two hours! This guy was basically dragging the poor little boy and most of it was walking up a very steep and long street when it was in 100 degree something heat. The kid couldn't do it...he was stopping a lot and crying. I wanted to get out of my car and go rescue the poor thing! I just continued to follow and eventually they got to a crest at the top of the steep road and then set up shop in front of a convenience store. At some point I contacted my city rep and made complaints about these people and specifically I wanted an explanation as to why this wasn't child abuse. It was obvious that none of the kids were going to school. Some of the kids I had actually watched growing up over the years, that's how long they'd been around and it just seemed pathetic for the kids. No one I spoke to had an answer for why it wasn't child abuse. They kept implying that it would have to be something more serious like smacking them around. I've seen people arrested for lesser forms of child abuse. With the city rep's help, I was able to work with the Border Patrol. They gave me a "special" number and told me to call whenever I saw them and said they would go right out and pick them all up. SO.....I went out every single day for several months documenting what I saw and calling the Border Patrol. They would come out immediately and would pick them all up but then they'd just return the next day. FINALLY I guess the Indians decided that they weren't going to get away with it anymore and it's been like a year or more since I've seen any of them around.
If anyone is able to discover the reason why illegals aren't charged with child abuse, I'd sure be interested!

Maybe we should start a campaign for the prosecution of parents who put their kids in this predicament? The parents aren't being held responsible for endangering their kids along with all of the other rules and laws they violate in this country! They try to make American citizens feel guilty for the predicaments these people put their kids into....when they put these kids through mental anguish, constantly having to lie and hide because the parents are here committing crimes. Most of these kids don't care which side of the border they live on...they just want to feel safe and be with their parents. Their parents aren't providing that kind of security for them when they are dragging many of them here against their will. It's NOT our laws that are causing this, it's the adults' non-compliance to those laws that are causing these children to be mistreated!

I agree. Everytime parents are picked up by ICE there should be a CPS agent there. Instead of rewarding them by not deporting the parents because of dependent children, they should be charging them with felony child endangerment.

Instead of illegal students demanding we pass the Dream Act, they should be suing their parents. If they want to go on a hunger strike go do it in front of their parents house not in front of our government offices.