Thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding across the border into Texas and other border states every day, but two things distinguish this wave from earlier illegal immigration waves. First, most of these people are coming from Central America, not Mexico. And second, large numbers of these illegal migrants are unaccompanied children. US authorities estimate that between 60,000 and 80,000 children will seek safe haven in the US this year, up from about 6,000 in 2011.
The explosive increase in the number of illegal migrants coming over the border over the past several months – especially the number of children traveling without their parents – has overwhelmed the Border Patrol’s detention centers in South Texas. During the past eight months, Customs and Border Protection has detained 47,000 unaccompanied minors, most of them in the Rio Grande Valley area of South Texas.
The question is, how and why are these hoards of young people coming here now. The working theory is that they are fleeing violence in their home countries. That may be true in some cases, but in most instances, they are coming because they believe they will get amnesty as a result of President Obama's lax immigration policies.
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