Earlier this month, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's editorial board said the surge of Central American children across the southern border and the Obama Administration's efforts to classify the illegal border crossers as "refugees" amounts to nothing more than an amnesty for illegal aliens.
Since the surge of “children” — primarily male teens — from Central America in 2014, the Obama administration has tried various ways to open the floodgates to this segment of illegal aliens. The latest attempt, billed as “family reunification,” extends to these children the same benefits as refugees.
-- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial, "'Refugee' ruse: An illegals pipeline", May 3, 2016
A resident of a Pittsburgh suburb, Joe Guzzardi, submitted a Letter to the Editor adding even more details to the 'ruse' based on his and his family's personal experiences in one Central American country.
I lived in Guatemala for many years. Guatemala is, along with El Salvador and Honduras, one of the three Central American countries sending alleged “unaccompanied minors” to the U.S.
As your editorial points out, however, the aliens are neither unaccompanied nor minors, but rather mostly teenage males ( “Refugees ruse: An illegals pipeline” ).
In frequent conversations with my sisters, adult nieces and nephews — all still in Guatemala — they're unanimous in their conviction that what the United Nations and President Obama label as a humanitarian crisis is rather a cruel hoax on taxpayers, who must fund the ongoing invasion.
Advocates have coached the aliens to claim, once they arrival on U.S. soil, that they have a “credible fear of persecution” and are fleeing life-threatening violence. But my family has told me repeatedly that violence is no more common in Central America today that it ever has been.
Now the fraud has another shameless, costly dimension: Certain aliens will be flown from Central America to the U.S. to rejoin their parents, often also aliens, and thus compounding the nation's disastrous illegal immigration problem.
“Remaking America,” indeed!
