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The U.S. Child Care Service...We'll watch your kids... while you smuggle
dope...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are trying to recruit Border
Patrol agents with expertise in child care to volunteer for 30-day
assignments at the Nogales, Ariz., border center to help manage the flood of
unaccompanied children who have crossed illegally into the U.S.
A June 6 internal memo obtained by TheBlaze says the Nogales center is being
mobilized to alleviate pressure on the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol
Sector, which has taken the brunt of the thousands of unaccompanied children
crossing. The wave of children has been labeled a federal emergency crisis
and has put significant pressure on housing and processing capabilities, the
memo said.
Border Patrol Seeking Agents With Child Care Skills to Handle Unaccompanied
Illegal Alien Children
Volunteer Michelle Lewis of Phoenix, right, helps Doris Suyapa, of Honduras,
with her shoes, by using yellow rope for shoe laces, Thursday, May 29, 2014
at the Greyhound bus terminal in Phoenix. About 400 mostly Central American
women and children caught crossing from Mexico into south Texas were flown
to Arizona this weekend after border agents there ran out of space and
resources. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
"The primary demographic of the individuals being housed at the [Nogales
processing center] are females and [unaccompanied alien children]," the memo
said. "Therefore, agents that are best equipped to interact with the above
demographic are being requested. Additionally, agents with experience in
emergency medical care and non-emergency health care, child care, or
juvenile teaching and/or counseling are encouraged to apply."
Most of the children coming in are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
It's not known for certain what is driving the wave, but Obama
administration opponents point to the White House's positions on immigration
reform, saying they are inspiring hope of obtaining amnesty in the U.S. Many
of the children are searching for parents who have left them behind to work
illegally in the United States, while others are fleeing growing gang
violence and crime in their home countries.
Border Patrol agents who volunteer will be tasked with processing, feeding,
monitoring, interacting with, and providing security for the children until
they are placed in the care of social services, the memo said.
More than 60,000 children are expected to cross into the United States in
2014, according to Border Patrol officials. Between Oct. 1 and Sept. 30
2013, only 4,474 children apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley were
accompanied by adults, compared to more than 21,000 children who crossed
unaccompanied, according to internal Border Patrol figures obtained by
TheBlaze. There were 128,426 adults apprehended in that same sector during
the same time period, straining law enforcement resources.
By Epictetus
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