Unaccompanied migrant children were found and rescued after the two wandered alone along the US-Mexico border on Monday.
According to the reports, a Texas Highway Patrol officer found the two children, one of them was only a toddler walking alone on the Mexico side of a chain-link fence on the banks of the Rio Grande.
The two children were scared and hungry. They were both carrying plastic bottles of water with the toddler carrying the bottle with his both tiny hands while the bigger boy was grasping him by the wrist when the national guard rescued them.
The rescue comes after the Department of Homeland Security warns the public and the government about the expected surge of unaccompanied migrant kids entering the US amid the mounting criticism of President Biden’s immigration policies.
Just last week, the DHS revealed that the US Federal government should expect a record-breaking surge of unaccompanied underage immigrants attempting to cross the US-Mexico border this year.
In a leaked report, the Department has estimated at least 148,000 up to 160,000 migrants to enter the United States in 2022.
“DHS projections call for approximately 148,000 and 161,000 [unaccompanied children] referrals to [Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement] this year,” an Interior Department projection showed as per the report released by the Washington Examiner.
Also last week, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas released an executive order allowing the Texas Department of Public Safety and National Guard to capture and arrest immigrants who will illegally cross the border between ports of entry and return them to Mexico amid the intense border crisis.
“While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect Americans and secure our southern border,” Abbott said in a statement while citing the Constitution as legal justification.
However, legal experts believe that the order will likely fail to survive a legal challenge.
“As they say in Texas, this dog won’t hunt. They’re relying on the guarantee clause of Article Four, Section Four, and that deals with an invasion, which is generally interpreted and long interpreted to mean an actual foreign invasion in the form of an army, an organized force.” Attorney Jonathan Turley argued.
Last July, the DHS warned about a possible record-breaking surge of unaccompanied underage immigrants attempting to cross the US-Mexico border this year.
According to the leaked report, the Department has estimated at least 148,000 up to 160,000 migrants to enter the United States in 2022.
“DHS projections call for approximately 148,000 and 161,000 [unaccompanied children] referrals to [Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement] this year,” an Interior Department projection showed as per the report released by the Washington Examiner.
