An editorial about these latest figures in Investor’s Business Daily on August 29 disputed the administration’s claims that it would deport illegal immigrants:
It exposes as false President Obama’s protestations, made in the heat of the public relations disaster of the border surge, that anyone crossing the Texas border would be sent back. Obama made those claims in response to photos of human squalor that were leaked to Breitbart and gained broader attention via Drudge Report.
Turns out he wasn’t sincere at all.
IBD noted that, since the odds of being released into the United States are 99.3 percent and the odds of being deported are a tiny 0.7 percent [280 out of 37,477], “there’s a clear incentive to try one’s luck.”
The IBD editorial also brought up a point rarely mentioned in the press: “80 percent of the illegal minors being released into society are males over the age of 14 who are of prime gang recruiting age.”
Street-hardened teenagers adorned with identifiable gang tattoos are not what most readers picture when reading articles about illegal immigrant “children.” But that is often the case.
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