Lack of resources lets fake families cross border without punishment
FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, a little girl is helped off an inflatable raft by a church volunteer after being smuggled across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with ... more >
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, April 18, 2021
A 36-year-old Brazilian man caught jumping the border over the weekend pointed to an 8-year-old girl with him and claimed she was his daughter.
Agents didn’t believe him. After questioning the two immigrants, they realized their stories didn’t match up. The man then admitted he was a friend of the child’s mother in Brazil and was using the girl to pretend to be a family, hoping to take advantage of the more lenient treatment U.S. policy affords parents who show up with children in tow.
Fake families plagued border authorities during the 2019 surge, and experts say they are pouring through again.
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