Tijuana, Baja California —
Some migrants in Tijuana are trying to purchase children from vulnerable single mothers in local shelters so they can more easily cross into the United States, according to shelter directors, migrants and Tijuana law enforcement authorities.
Migrants in Tijuana shelters said they are alarmed after reports of single mothers being approached by groups of men who have offered to buy children to improve their chances of safely crossing into the United States.
A decades-old legal document, known as the Flores agreement, says migrant children should only be held briefly in U.S. border custody, which often means they are released, along with the parent or guardian with whom they crossed while they wait for their asylum cases to make their way through clogged immigration courts…
“I can’t go to work because I can’t take my eyes off my boys,” said Antonia Portillo Cruz, a 44-year-old migrant from Honduras, who said the men have been targeting the shelter where she stays. She said she witnessed some of the men asking women in the shelter about purchasing their children, but none of them made the offer directly to her.
Portillo said the groups of men have been approaching the Iglesia Embajadores de Jesus shelter in Tijuana and offering about 7,000 pesos, or $350, to purchase a child to cross into the United States.
She said she fears the requests and the offers of money will turn into demands or kidnappings. Portillo said she never lets her two boys, aged 10 and 8, out of her sight.
“They want to rob our kids so they can cross into the United States,” she said angrily.
A spokesman for the Tijuana municipal police confirmed the reports and said federal authorities are investigating. The case was first reported by Tijuana journalists Yolanda Morales and Yuriria Sierra for Imagen TV.
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I think the border needs to be closed tight.
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Cut off ALL immigration of any kind.
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Last I read the Trump Administration is doing DNA test on the “families” crossing our border illegally
To determine whether the children belong to the adults they are traveling with
Perhaps someone should notify Tijuana…
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I am not sure they are doing that for everyone.
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I think they just finished the trial, and are now implementing dna testing as a regular part of screening.
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i hope so.
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I hope this mother is teaching her children not to speak to anyone they do not know and also how to yell “Help! I’m being kidnapped” should anyone try to steal them.
And what would these thieves do with the purchased children when released into the American population? Horrible to think about. Anyone who crosses our border with a child not his own, should be put in jail immediately and charged with child trafficking, plus the acquisition of another human being.
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I apologize upfront for the vulgarity of my post but there’s just no way to water this down. Reports of an El Paso medical official finding 20 (yes 20) different types of semen in a 10 year old (yes 10) “migrants” body.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/horror-10-year-old-migrant-girl-found-with-20-different-types-of-semen-illegal-bought-her-from-her-family-in-guatemala/
Satan is the only one evil enough carry out these heinous acts. Sadly much of our government has been compromised by the evil one.
When I read these things the only thing I can do is pray.
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