ICE & The 5-Year Old Boy
ABC News claims that ICE’s account of its care for a 5-year old boy in Minnesota is disputed by “school officials” who say that the “boy’s mother was home and begged for him.”
IN FACT, both ICE and the school officials agree that the mother would not open the door of her home to take custody of her son. Instead, people who were not the boy’s parents asked to take him. However, ICE officers and police officers are not allowed to hand children to non-parents unless a parent selects a caregiver or there are extenuating circumstances like child abuse. Here are the details:
- ICE says that the father of the boy left his son in his car and fled when ICE tried to detain the father.
- Both ICE and the school officials say that ICE took the boy to the home of his mother, but the mother would not open the door.
- The school officials claim that ICE wanted to use the child as “bait to” to detain the mother.
- ICE claims they wanted to give the boy to his mother and “assured her” that she would “NOT be taken into custody.”
- School officials say that neighbors, a school official, and “another adult living in the home” asked to care for the boy.
- ICE says that the father decided to keep his son with him after the mother refused to open the door.
Illegal immigrants, with help from their advocates, sometimes use children to get into the U.S. and then shield themselves from deportation. Here are 3 prime examples:
- To take advantage of a “family unit” exemption for illegal border crossers, an immigrant told the New York Times that he took his daughter on a dangerous journey to illegally cross the U.S. border because, “She was my passport.”
- After illegally entering the U.S. and being deported, a Honduran man was caught crossing the border but was released by immigration officials because he had a child with him. He was later arrested by Denver police for child sexual assault, but when ICE asked the city of Denver to turn him over for deportation, Denver released him because it is a sanctuary city and closed his case by dropping all 6 of the felony charges against him.
- President Obama attempted to unilaterally make 4-to-5 million illegal immigrants immune from deportation and eligible for Social Security and Medicare if they had a child who was a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. This action was struck down (2–1) by a federal appeals court.
