And then I crack open this morning's Los Angeles Times and the paper reports data on illegal alien children deportations based on numbers obtained through a freedom of information request. Not only are deportations way down, but most alien migrants end up staying in the United States for years while their cases work through the system. In other words, just as I argued yesterday, illegal alien migrants aren't sent back home, and thus those so-called "rumors" of immigration "permisos" drawing migrants north are largely true. This of course harshly debunks the leftist lies of the past couple of days. Facts are hard for idiot progs. Indeed, when faced with the facts, Professor Martinez cravenly blocked me on Twitter rather than deal with her literally criminal support for the Democrats' open-borders lawlessness.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Deportation data won't dispel rumors drawing migrant minors to U.S.":
President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.Human traffickers are exploiting a 2008 law that allows lengthy legal proceedings for Central American migrants. President Obama would like to tighten the law, but congressional Democrats have rebuked the White House, holding out instead for massive "comprehensive" illegal alien amnesty:
But under the Obama administration, those reports have proved increasingly true.
The number of immigrants under 18 who were deported or turned away at ports of entry fell from 8,143 in 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 1,669 last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data released under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Similarly, about 600 minors were ordered deported each year from nonborder states a decade ago. Ninety-five were deported last year, records show, even as a flood of unaccompanied minors from Central America — five times more than two years earlier — began pouring across the Southwest border.
A mounting backlog in immigration courts since then has allowed most Central American minors to stay for years while their cases wend their way through the legal system. Once they are assigned to social workers, as the law requires, the overwhelming majority are sent to live with their parents or relatives in the United States, officials said.More.
Organized crime groups in Central America have exploited the slow U.S. legal process and the compassion shown to children in apparent crisis, according to David Leopold, an immigration attorney in Cleveland.
He said smugglers, who may charge a family up to $12,000 to deliver a child to the border, often tell them exactly what to say to American officials.
"The cartels have figured out where the hole is," he said. About 60 criminal investigators have been sent to San Antonio and Houston to try to infiltrate these networks and prosecute the smugglers who bring the children into the United States, officials said.
Obama last week asked Congress to change the 2008 law to give the head of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, greater discretion to send children back to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras more quickly.
But Obama is likely to face stiff opposition from fellow Democrats, who have vowed to block narrow changes to immigration laws. Senate Democrats overwhelmingly backed a comprehensive immigration bill last summer only to see the measure die in the GOP-led House.
"He can't get it passed," a senior Democratic staffer in the Senate said of Obama's request.
As it now stands, the 2008 law guarantees unaccompanied minors from those countries access to a federal asylum officer and a chance to tell a U.S. judge that they were victims of a crime or face abuse or sexual trafficking if they are sent home. If the claim is deemed credible, judges may grant a waiver from immediate deportation.
"Word of mouth gets back, and now people are calling and saying, 'This is what I said'" in court, said a senior U.S. law enforcement official, who was not authorized to speak on the record. "Whether it is true or not, the perception is that they are successfully entering the United States.... That is what is driving up the landings."
The increase has been dramatic. For most of the last decade, U.S. agents apprehended fewer than 4,000 unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras each year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures.
The total jumped to 10,146 in fiscal year 2012. It doubled to 20,805 last fiscal year. It nearly doubled again, to 39,133, between last October and June 15 this year...
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