Migrant Families (Real or Not) Get Fast-Tracked Across the Border

The Biden administration’s claim that illegal border crossers face immediate expulsion has at least one huge exemption: migrant families.

A recent New York Post report found that threats of expedited removals and five-year bans on re-entry simply do not apply to migrants with children. This gaping loophole, along with the Border Patrol ending family DNA testing, is a boon to cartel traffickers, human smugglers and illegal aliens who exploit minors.

Migrants are testing the administration’s supposedly tough post-Title 42 rules and have found them flimsy as ever.

“Without kids, you run the risk of getting deported,” a migrant told the Post last week. “What we’re telling the relatives is if they have kids they have a good chance.” And asylum isn’t even a factor with the Border Patrol.

According to five freshly released parents at a McDonald’s in Del Rio, Texas, all already had asylum or humanitarian protection in Mexico but were never asked about it. A Salvadoran father of three, showing his Mexican residency card, said all three kids were born in Mexico and were Mexican citizens.

A mother of three noted: “We just turned ourselves in. Border Patrol didn’t ask us anything. They just did all the paperwork. We didn’t even tell them we were seeking asylum or anything.”

Using court-imposed limits on family detentions as cover, the Biden administration is essentially giving free passes to family units. This has emboldened more migrants to pose as mothers and/or fathers to better their chances of entering the U.S.

It’s not a new tactic for human-smugglers and cartels. In one case, a Honduran mother of four rented three of her children, ages six months to 12 years, to three different Honduran men so they could pass through the Texas border.

Such schemes are becoming standard procedure as families – real or not — get fast-tracked into the country. This opens the door to all manner of nefarious activities, ranging from workplace exploitation of minors to sex slavery.

Going along to get along, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) turned a blind eye last month when it halted family DNA testing at ports of entry. Prior to being shut down, one in three family units were failing the screening.

Meantime, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program that exposed hundreds of fraudulent “family units” during the Trump administration has gone quiet.

“This administration wants families and kids released quickly. That is their No. 1 goal, so they are not going to do anything to slow that process down,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said.

That statement was made to the Washington Examiner in 2021. Looks like Joe Biden’s new rules aren’t any better than the old ones. Maybe worse, as more conmen and women know they can ram “families” across the border.