by Morgan Lerette, American Thinker:
At a high level, the movement of minors across the U.S.-Mexico border is easy to understand. Children arrive at the border and are moved to where they have “family.” Like most U.S. government bureaucracies, the process is much more complex, fraught with incompetence, and no one can be held accountable.
Massive government contracts doled out to private military contractors and nonprofits hide the sheer ineptitude of these policies. The common thread of these programs is they are being outsourced from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) to contractors. This allows the agencies to distance themselves from their policies while no one is held accountable. Human-smuggling operations exploit the immigration process, dropping a child at the border and taking custody of them in the U.S. This is why DHS cannot account for over 320,000 children who have entered the U.S.
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The Supply Chain
A source within the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) states the children are being coached by the traffickers on what to do and say when they reach the border. If an individual claims to be under the age of 14, CBP is not required to ask them for documentation or fingerprint them. They are given a point of contact in the U.S. who is part of the smuggling ring and told to inform CBP their parents are in the U.S. Knowing CBP cannot confirm this, the kids are processed through the border.
Once a minor reaches the border, it becomes a race against time. By regulation, CBP can only hold a minor for 72 hours so the logistics operation starts immediately. With limited personnel, they’ve contracted with MVM, a private military contractor (PMC), to move these children across the country. Where they go is based on what the minor has told CBP. As an example, if a minor tells CBP their parents are in Ohio, MVM transports them to Cleveland. No one in this process has verified they have family in the area.
MVM hands these children off to a nonprofit contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under HHS. These nonprofits are tasked with finding sponsors for the children which is primarily based on what the child says. As coached by the smugglers, they inform them they have family in the area and give them the contact information provided by their smugglers. The nonprofit contacts the “family members” and passes them along — handing them back to the smugglers. They can now hold the child for ransom to ensure they receive payment or sell them to the highest bidder. The added benefit is there is no definitive identification of the child so they can never be found.
The Use of Private Contractors
Using private contractors has become the norm for government agencies. The problem is once a contractor is involved, the government has no direct oversight to what happens. This is convenient for the politicians and agencies because they can blame the problems on a third party instead of shouldering the consequences of their policies and actions.
The company moving children from the border to places within the U.S. is called MVM. MVM is known for working with the CIA and other intelligence agencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like Blackwater, it protected government employees and was dogged by claims of misconduct. Looking at its job board, it has multiple positions open for “logistics specialists” whose primary task is to transport minors and family units to the airport where they are handed off to MVM’s “Travel Youth Care Workers” for transportation to an ORR funded nonprofit. These soft job descriptions cover over a hard truth — this is government-funded human trafficking.
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