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2021-03-24 Caribbean-Latin America
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Girl's solo journey to US border shows risks parents take
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What Egyptian readers are learning about the migration to America, that what the parents are knowingly doing to their children is evil. [AlAhram] Nearly 9,500 migrant children arrived at the border in February, up 60% from a month earlier
The Honduran girl, 7 years old and surrounded by strangers in the pre-dawn darkness, was determined to keep pace with the other migrants colonists headed for the U.S. border.
| At seven she most certainly cannot become an undocumented worker, doing the work Americans refuse to do, making her just an illegal alien. |
 Her father, she told an News Agency that Dare Not be Named journalist, had traveled with her by bus for 22 days across Mexico. Then, he went back to their homeland -- but not before he placed her in the hands of a young man who was to help her cross the river into Texas.
| At least, starting in Honduras, she and Pops didn’t have to pass on foot through the Darien Gap, the roadless jungle between Columbia and Panama bereft of all modern comforts and infested by bandits. Many of those who go in are never seen again, and many of those lost are the parents of the unexpectedly unaccompanied children who emerge. |
``He just said to go on my own and take care of myself,'' she said.
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| She is seven, you vile idiot. If she can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and brush her teeth every night without being told, that puts her in the 90th percentile of her age group. |
What happened to the man who was to be her guide is unclear, but the pony-tailed girl met up with a group and pressed on, vigorously swinging her arms to keep up as they trekked north through the Rio Grande Valley on Sunday under a half-moon.
Note that no one bothered to help her, so if she did not keep up, she’d be left behind. But wait a little longer, dear Reader. It gets worse. Temperatures had dipped into the mid-50s; the girl wore a yellow jacket decorated with cartoonish drawings of trains, and a black mask to protect her from COVID-19.
But her journey illustrates the extraordinary risks taken by migrant parents to get their children across the border, even if it means abandoning them for the most perilous part of the trip.
| Perilous risks the abandoning parents are not taking, one notes... |
These desperate decisions represent a dilemma for the fledgling administration of President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
as it attempts to restore an orderly asylum system: In trying to adopt a more humane approach to protect minors traveling alone, more children may be put at risk.
Unintended consequences and second order effects that would never have happened had the Trump rules been maintained instead of openly and loudly scrapped. Nearly 9,500 migrant children arrived at the border in February, up 60% from a month earlier.
| How many of them are actually children? In Scandinavia, the most recent survey revealed that something like 94% of refugees who claim to be children are not. |
The government is rushing to set up more facilities to house them and speeding up the process to place them with relatives in the U.S. The city and county of San Diego said Monday that its downtown convention center would host migrant children for an average of 30 to 35 days.
Single adults are almost always expelled, while families are sometimes expelled and sometimes allowed to remain in the United States to pursue asylum.
The girl did reach the United States. A fellow Honduran migrant, 25-year-old Fernanda Solis, said she found her crying alone on a dirt path north of the Rio Grande after midnight, as a helicopter hovered overhead and border agents addressed migrants colonists through a loudspeaker.
Solis tried to comfort the girl, who was cold, hungry and thirsty. She told her they could walk together to turn themselves over to Border Patrol agents and seek asylum.
The girl gained confidence as she walked a route commonly used by Central American migrants colonists. She answered questions unhesitatingly: She turns 8 next month. She should be going into third grade, though she did not complete second because of the pandemic.
She pressed ahead to a country where she knows no one but a family member in South Carolina.
”Tio José” isn’t enough. Does she have full name, address, telephone number, and money to make the phone call? ``That's how she acts. She is brave,'' Solis said.
 The girl said her father had no more money to cross the border with her.
``He lost his job,'' she said, simply.
Solis said she was able to gather that the girl's father had recently tried to cross with her, but they were both quickly expelled back to Reynosa, Mexico, under pandemic-related powers the Trump administration invoked. Biden has kept the powers -- known as Title 42 for the section of an obscure public health law -- in place.
The worse part we’ve been waiting for. ``The girl told me they had tried to cross together, but they were returned. This time, he just sent the girl for her to turn herself in,'' Solis said.
And even worse. How does a small child benefit if she has to cross half a continent on her own, surrounded by strangers who do not speak her language or care what happens to her? This is no Kindertransport where an established organization oversees the movement of supervised groups of children under controlled conditions. The last time something like this happened, the famous Children’s Crusade of 1212 AD, when almost all of the children ended up dead or enslaved along the way. A federal judge halted expulsions of unaccompanied children in November, after the Trump administration had turned back at least 8,800. But an appeals court panel of three Trump-appointed judges ruled in January that they could resume. Biden, in a break with Trump, decided to release children to relatives with notices to appear in immigration courts.
The Honduran girl turned herself over to Customs and Border Protection; the agency did not respond to a request for information about her whereabouts.
Her story is being repeated again and again along the border. On Sunday, a Salvadoran man approached a journalist to ask whether his 13-year-old daughter would qualify to stay if she crossed on her own.
``The parents are saying `We are not going to make it. We have to be very realistic here, but if I send my child up to the bridge, and they cross alone, they'll have to take them in,''' said Jennifer Harbury, a Texas-based human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
advocate.
And how many of the children subsequently find themselves dead, raped, or put to work by the drug cartels as mules or child prostitutes, none of which would have happened if they had stayed home with their parents?
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