CBN News went down to the border to see firsthand why so many are coming here from the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador and what they found isn’t all that surprising.
They did find credence to the argument that illegals are coming here to flee violence:
Liberals quickly point to escalating violence in Central America as a root cause for the surge. CBN News found that was also a common motivation.
At a temporary immigrant shelter for women and children run by Catholic Charities in McAllen, we spoke with “Lilian,” a young single Honduran mom. She told us that gangs and violence ruled life in her city.
“I had a temporary job,” she explained. “I would get out at 8 p.m. I couldn’t go into my neighborhood [then] because they would kill me.”
While this is no surprise that these countries are riddled with violence and corruption, this violence isn’t new and didn’t happen over night. I think the better question is why are they coming now?
This is what they found:
We also learned that a so-called “perfect storm” of events has led thousands of families to choose now to send their children across the border.
We met “Maribel” in the Guatemalan consulate in McAllen. She was attempting to pick up her friends’ detained children after they received a call from Border Patrol.
“Maribel” said the parents recently paid a smuggler after hearing that that Border Patrol would release kids to their parents in the United States.
“The parents started to say, ‘Okay, this is the time,'” she explained. “Because everybody thinks it’s easy.”
But there’s more to it than just that:
Ana Bulnes, who heads the Honduran consulate in McAllen, said many parents have believed the same rumor.
“It’s believed that the parents who are living in the United States have been misinformed about some sort of amnesty that the U.S. government would be providing the minor with once they set foot on American soil,” she said.
There you have it.
These children being sent here didn’t just magically start because of violence. They are being summoned here by parents and family members in the US who believe that these children will receive amnesty once they arrive.
And we know exactly where they got those ideas. From Barack Hussein Obama who granted illegal amnesty in 2012 to young illegals as part of the failed Dream Act.
Read the full article at CBN News as it explains more about what they learned about the costs and hazards of coming to America.