WASHINGTON (AP) — Border Patrol agents could arrest as many as 90,000 children trying to illegally cross the Mexican border alone this year, more than three times the number of children apprehended in 2013, according to a draft internal Homeland Security memorandum reviewed by The Associated Press.
Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics estimates that by 2015 the number of children apprehended while traveling alone could grow to 142,000.
Releasing those people and taking other actions such as reuniting children caught alone at the border with parents or other relatives already in the U.S. serve as "incentives to additional individuals to follow the same path," Vitiello wrote.
republicans are crying Obama hasn't fixed the borders if they mean electrified fences and moats as they suggested no but he has contrary to their misinformation id enforcing the laws, they point out he has deported more than any other pres. so they want it both ways he's not in one breath and as a weapon used to influence Mexicans he's breaking records sending them back.
but in the midst of their flip flopping they left out those kids by law can stay until family or housing can be found courtesy of republican pres. G W Bush and congress.
4) Congress set the rules on dealing with child migrants under the Bush Administration
The Obama administration has a lot of executive authority in enforcing immigration law. But when it comes to unaccompanied children, it actually doesn't have much leeway to change policy. That's because of a series of laws passed by Congress that set a particular process for unaccompanied child migrants as a way of fighting human trafficking. (These laws reinforced a 1997 government lawsuit settlement that set certain standards for care.) Most of this process was codified by Congress under the Homeland Security Act of 2002; Congress added some additional protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, in 2008.
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5813406/explain-child-migrant-crisis-central-america-unaccompanied-children-immigrants-daca
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr7311/text
