{"id":3311,"date":"2023-05-09T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2023-05-09T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:51:02","slug":"what-we-know-about-unaccompanied-children-arriving-at-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3311","title":{"rendered":"What We Know About Unaccompanied Children Arriving at Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-43-1024x532.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3312\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-43-1024x532.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-43-1024x532.png 1024w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-43-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-43-770x400.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-43-293x152.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-43-390x203.png 390w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-43.png 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A 10-year-old girl from Honduras arrived at the southern border unaccompanied by adults. She told Sheena Rodriguez that she hoped to stay in America, and wanted to \u201ccolor and get to know my father.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Honduras girl is like so many other unaccompanied alien children, says Rodriguez, founder and president of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/securetheborder.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alliance for a Safe Texas.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These kids arrive at the border with \u201cpieces of paper with handwritten numbers on it,\u201d she says, \u201cand these children are going to people that they have never even spoken to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/04\/18\/biden-administration-official-unable-answer-whereabouts-85000-migrant-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">85,000 migrant children<\/a>&nbsp;have entered the U.S. and been placed with a sponsor, but the federal U.S. government now doesn\u2019t know the children\u2019s location or status. Through her work at Alliance for a Safe Texas, Rodriguez seeks to raise awareness about how the border crisis has led to the exploitation of children, and to offer solutions to lawmakers who are trying to fix policies that led to the current situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodriguez\u2019s desire to find out what was really going on at the southern border began about three years ago. She says she needed to see the situation for herself, so she planned a trip.&nbsp;Rodriguez left her home in North Texas and arrived around midnight in Laredo, about 160 miles south of San Antonio on the Mexican border.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe encountered about 60 different men, all young men, to the one Border Patrol agent,\u201d Rodriguez says, adding: \u201cAnd he looked at me, didn\u2019t know me from anywhere, and said, \u2018I need help. We\u2019re being invaded.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that moment, Rodriguez says she committed to doing something to address the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/category\/border-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">border crisis<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since that first trip, Rodriguez says, she has taken nearly three dozen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/03\/11\/i-went-southern-border-3-a-m-is-what-i-saw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trips to the border<\/a>&nbsp;and spoken with many illegal aliens, including unaccompanied migrant children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodriguez joins \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Daily Signal Podcast<\/a>\u201d to share stories of these unaccompanied children and explain what we know about how minors are arriving alone at the border.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/castbox.fm\/app\/castbox\/player\/id3119922\/id594260821?v=8.22.11&#038;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe src=\"https:\/\/castbox.fm\/app\/castbox\/player\/id3119922\/id594260821?v=8.22.11&#038;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Virginia Allen: We are joined today by Sheena Rodriguez. Sheena is the founder and president of Alliance for a Safe Texas. Welcome to the show.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sheena Rodriguez<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>&nbsp;Thank you so much for having me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen: Well, Sheena, your organization, your mission is really all about raising awareness about what is going on with our southern border and how the situation at the border is impacting individuals\u2019 lives, whether that\u2019s American lives or the migrants themselves who are coming across and coming to America. But this is not always the work that you\u2019ve been doing. How did you come into this kind of work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodriguez:<\/strong>&nbsp;Yeah, so, thank you for asking that question because I get asked that a lot and I think people are a little bit surprised. I\u2019m just a homeschooling mom. That\u2019s it. My education is actually in developmental psychology. I used to work, was a former educator, used to teach fourth grade and preschool children. But really, my heart and my advocacy has always been in the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so, actually, for a number of years in North Texas, where I live, I was a volunteer counselor for a pro-life center out there. And \u2026 in Irving, Texas, at the time when we still had that location out there, saw kind of some different elements that people did not\u2014this was years ago when my children were little\u2014may not have been aware of,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">particularly with immigration<\/a>&nbsp;of forced arranged marriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And my family being Puerto Rican, my husband is a first-generation Mexican American, we\u2019ve always been kind of cognizant of immigration and some of the issues and the different ways that it impacts the communities and individual lives that, like you said, that people may not always connect those dots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Fast-forward to about three years ago, I was never really in the political realm, if you will. I voted in general elections, thought I was well-informed, thought I was doing the right thing. And always kind of voted what I believed to be my pro-life agenda, my pro-life values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And unfortunately, found out very quickly that if I wanted to try and save the great state of Texas and our sovereign nation, that really, unfortunately, politics was where I needed to be. So then I was already advocating in the state of Texas, in our capital, for all things conservative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when I started going down to the border in Texas and seeing for myself what was happening, I began to see very quickly the exploitation of human beings on all levels and the devastation that was being in inflicted, like you had said, on the lives of Texans and American citizens and the migrants themselves coming over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So then I started trying to apply because the thing is that when people begin to understand kind of what\u2019s going on, they get overwhelmed. That\u2019s part of our human nature. And it\u2019s like, \u201cWell, what can I do? What can I do?\u201d So I started researching and finding ways and getting connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been very blessed to get connected with experts and larger think tanks and trying to find ways that we can try to address these issues on the local, city, county, and, of course, on the state level. So that\u2019s been our major focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And fast-forward, here I am, been a wild ride, and like I said, just yesterday I was out here in Austin fighting for our first bill with regards to the facilities. So it\u2019s been kind of crazy. But I\u2019m very, very thankful to have the opportunity to try and be at least a singular voice, an everyday regular American trying to do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen: Well, it\u2019s neat to hear a little bit of you backstory. In April, that journey of saying \u201cyes\u201d to entering this political space actually brought you to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and you testified before the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House<\/a>&nbsp;Judiciary subcommittee on immigration integrity, security, and enforcement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And that hearing was specifically looking at what is happening at the border in relation to kids and children and how policies are affecting minors who are coming to the border.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You said during your testimony that you have been to the border almost three dozen times within a span of two years. Why did you start taking so many trips to our southern border?<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodriguez:<\/strong>&nbsp;Because prior to that\u2014again, I live in North Texas, in the DFW area between Dallas and Fort Worth. So prior to that, I had never really been further south than San Antonio, which, if you understand how big Texas is, that\u2019s not that inconceivable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so the very first time that I had visited the border, I know it might sound a little strange, but I really felt a calling to go and I couldn\u2019t understand why. And I remember then my husband going, \u201cOh, but it\u2019s just one time,\u201d and it was to Laredo. And I\u2019m like, \u201cYeah, babe, this is totally, I\u2019m just going to go see for myself because I don\u2019t believe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, we\u2019re in a place in our society currently where we cannot necessarily trust what we\u2019re seeing in the news and in the media. And me being kind of, I\u2019ve always liked trust but verify. I felt driven to go down and see for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of what I had seen is actually grown adult males. And that\u2019s actually the very first encounter that I had down there in Laredo. We got there probably close to about midnight. It was very dark. And there was one Border Patrol agent, two pods. We encountered about 60 different men, all young men, to the one Border Patrol agent. And he looked at me, didn\u2019t know me from anywhere, and said, \u201cI need help. We\u2019re being invaded.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And from that moment on, I\u2019m like, I started praying. I\u2019m like, \u201cLord, what do I do?\u201d I felt called to go down and I\u2019m going now. And just different situations kept on coming up where it kept on driving me to different areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so now I have been everywhere from the RGV, the Rio Grande Valley; McAllen; Roma; La Joya, a few times where I encountered a lot of these younger unaccompanied minors that I testified about; Laredo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent a lot of time concentrating in the Del Rio Sector because we\u2019re trying, again, there were several people like Brent Smith, which is a Kinney County attorney, trying to find ways of how we can try to combat this on the state and local levels up to El Paso and also out there in Yuma, [Arizona].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then trying to fill in those gaps from what was happening, what I\u2019m seeing even with Operation Lone Star in Texas, what am I seeing and encountering, and getting information from the locals that live there to the law enforcement that are boots on the ground, and how do I fill in that gap between that and what\u2019s actually happening in Austin where policies are being driven?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So trying to bring that different, unique, if you will\u2014because a lot of it is like top brass, which is great, but it\u2019s also important to hear from the boots on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then also having\u2014we just saw in the news the travesty that happened in Cleveland, Texas. I had been there. I\u2019d been there on an assignment. So that\u2019s hundreds of miles away from the border. And then also seeing how it\u2019s impacted my respective area, it kind of brings together a different, unique perspective of connecting the dots, if you will. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen: When we talk about unaccompanied minors arriving at the border, obviously, I think everyone can agree this isn\u2019t OK. And you start asking the question of, why are these kids showing up at the border without a parent, without some sort of adult? Did they walk there by themselves? What\u2019s going on? In all of your trips down there, what have you learned as to why minors are showing up unaccompanied at the border? Who is sending them? How did they get there?<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodriguez:<\/strong>&nbsp;I really appreciate that question. Unaccompanied minors, you\u2019ll kind of experience all along the border in different areas. But one of the reasons why I was also attracted to the Roma and La Joya areas is because that\u2019s where you generally see some of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/05\/01\/mark-morgan-calls-out-hypocrisy-of-corporate-medias-silence-over-new-photos-of-kids-in-cages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">younger children coming over<\/a>&nbsp;because most of the unaccompanied minors are teenagers, older teens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I started asking those questions, \u201cHow does a 10-year-old girl come from Honduras by herself?\u201d, for example. And several of these children had similar stories. They were just told that they were coming to the United States. This is coming from their mouths. Now, I can\u2019t verify of any of their stories, the validity of it, but this is coming from them. And kind of correlating with what we were seeing. And that\u2019s why in the congressional hearing it I felt like gave the whole picture where I had encountered the stories of what they were saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Tara Rodas, who was the whistleblower \u2026 from inside [the Department of Health and Human Services], where what happens to the children afterwards. And it was kind of this full circle moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what I began seeing was a lot of these children saying, \u201cI was just told I\u2019m coming.\u201d People within [nongovernmental organizations], they said women inside these bodegas, which are warehouses, were telling them, \u201cThis is who your sponsor\u2019s going to be when you get there. This is to your mother. This is to your father. This is to your tio, your aunt, your uncle that are already here in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I would ask them, like, \u201cWell, have you spoken to them? Are they excited that you\u2019re coming?\u201d Things like that. And they had no idea. \u201cI\u2019ve never spoken to them. My mother, my father, I\u2019ve never spoken to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One girl, the 10-year-old from Honduras, \u201cI\u2019m hoping to go and color and get to know my father.\u201d And it\u2019s devastating because these pieces of paper with handwritten numbers on it, and these children are going to people that they have never even spoken to, that strangers are telling them who to ask for when they arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I asked, \u201cWell, how did you pay to come?\u201d \u201cWell, the people paid. They said as long as I was going to the United States that I would be OK to come.\u201d Shoved into these warehouses, shoved into the back of eighteen-wheelers, raped along the way. A good number of them, unfortunately, encountered a lot of violence along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, some of them, some of the olders, I\u2019ve also encountered some older teenagers around 16 to 17, was what they had claimed, for example, in the Del Rio Sector, that were not turning themselves in, that were hiding in the brush. And that\u2019s even more concerning because it\u2019s like, why are you trying to hide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, of course, we also have the other individuals where we\u2019ve seen men, grown men coming over with these young children, claiming that they\u2019re adopted daughters, they\u2019re adopted sons, and yet they don\u2019t even know their names. They don\u2019t even know their date of birth. And there\u2019s no way because of the policies to really verify and vet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there\u2019s a wide scope of things that are occurring. And then simultaneously, these types of facilities holding these unaccompanied minors are exploding exponentially, growing all over Texas and the United States. According to [the Office of Refugee Resettlement], they\u2019re up to now 27 states with nearly 300 facilities. And I expect with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/05\/02\/bracing-post-title-42-surge-biden-sending-1500-troops-border-texas-cities-issue-emergency-declarations\/\">Title 42<\/a>&nbsp;lifting, that number will grow up higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this is literally bringing the issues of these unaccompanied minors being trafficked potentially in your viewers\u2019 backyard without them even being aware of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen: Sheena, it\u2019s such a layered issue and there\u2019s so many moving parts. And of course, everyone\u2019s story is different. For every illegal alien, for every child, they\u2019re coming from a different situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But let\u2019s take, for example, the little girl who said she\u2019s coming to meet her father and just wants to color. How does that journey begin? Has she been left with an aunt in South America who\u2019s now sending her to America in hopes of a better life and her parents have already come to America? Have her parents sent her alone in hopes of her having a better life, but they\u2019re still in South America? Is it both?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s hard to wrap your mind around family members just sort of shoving their kids off and saying, \u201cI hope for the best.\u201d I think 99% of parents, they do have good intentions for their kids. They want to see their child have a better life. So is that what\u2019s playing out here, that parents are being lied to and they\u2019re being told, \u201cYour child, if they come with me, they can have more opportunities?\u201d What do we really know?<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodriguez:<\/strong>&nbsp;I greatly appreciate that question for so many reasons. Yes, every situation is a little bit different and a little bit unique. And again, we cannot necessarily verify the validity of their claims. We can only go by what they\u2019re saying and what we\u2019re experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019ve seen everything from, I encountered one woman in a larger group in the RGV, in the Rio Grande Valley, that I watched cross over at the hands of the \u201ccoyotes\u201d on a raft and had brought her very tiny baby with her. It turned out that she said that the baby was born prematurely, a day shy of a month old. And I\u2019m saying this for a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they came up and I started asking questions, \u201cWhy? What would motivate you?\u201d Because like you said, I\u2019m a mom. It\u2019s very difficult, I think, for Americans and for mothers and for fathers especially, we can\u2019t conceive trying, putting our children in the hands of strangers. And there\u2019s very different reasons as to why. And not all of them well-intentioned, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in the case of this woman, when I had asked her, \u201cWhat motivated you to come now, such a perilous journey?\u201d, she had stated that she was shoved into the back of eighteen-wheelers using Facebook to guide them. The group collectively said Facebook helped to guide them on the route along. All of this is documented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had also stated, again, and many of them chimed in in the group in agreeance that they had seen, what motivated her to come was because of the policies, essentially. They had seen the news reports on Telemundo saying that children, that individuals and adults with young children under a certain age were being accepted into the United States. And that children being sent by themselves were being accepted into the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So they saw that as their way. That as long as they were coming, crossing with children, that they would be accepted in. And I feel like that gives us an insight into what is really the root causes that is driving the use of children. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen: Well, in your organization, Alliance for a Safe Texas, that\u2019s one of your core missions, is to get that state involvement at a policy level. And that\u2019s something that you mentioned earlier. You-all have just taken on, you\u2019ve introduced and are advocating for a bill in Texas. Talk a little bit about that and what that bill would do.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodriguez:&nbsp;<\/strong>Thank you so much. Yes. So, our bill was HB 5000. [State Rep.] Stan Kitzman, a freshman, he\u2019s one to definitely keep an eye on for all things conservative moving forward. So thankful for that relationship with him and him working on this with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HB 5000, it\u2019s actually very simple. All it states is that if it were passed, that these HHS-contracted facilities are licensed by the state of Texas. Why is that important? Because that would give us an opportunity to have much-needed oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And [that] at least gives us the chance to get a foot in the door because there\u2019s so many issues that even the local cities, a lot of them are rural areas already strapped for resources. It gives us an opportunity as a state to give oversight, basically puts it under the same mandates and requirements, if you will, as our state foster care system. Which seems simple. It seems like common sense. Why aren\u2019t we doing this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida and South Carolina, especially Florida, have already put in many regulations. Since 2013, they strengthened them in 2019 and they\u2019re strengthening them even further as far as these facilities. And next, I believe that they\u2019re going to start cracking down on the sponsors because they have done an investigation on the state level of finding out what is happening with the children in their state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s also Stan Kitzman, once again, has also come up to the plate and he also has sponsored our letter asking for the same exact type of state-level investigation in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m thankful, so thankful to announce that we have bipartisan support from state legislators. Both Democrats and Republicans have signed on to it. And we will be sending that letter shortly here to our [attorney general\u2019s] office here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And again, hopefully, if a federal level investigation is done, then hopefully these investigations on the state level will help with those types of investigations moving forward as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I want to encourage, if people are overwhelmed, I was like, what can I do? They can try and take what we\u2019re trying to do here in Texas and implement it in their respective areas. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen: Well, and for anyone who is listening, who wants to hear more about the work that you\u2019re doing and the work of Alliance For a Safe Texas, you can check out the website, which is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/securetheborder.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">securetheborder.us<\/a>. And Sheena, I just really want to thank you for your time and for breaking down \u2026 a really overwhelming issue, and one that is very multifaceted but is so pressing right now.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodriguez:<\/strong>\u00a0Thank you so much. Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/05\/08\/what-know-unaccompanied-migrant-children-arriving-southern-border\/\">https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/05\/08\/what-know-unaccompanied-migrant-children-arriving-southern-border\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-year-old girl from Honduras arrived at the southern border unaccompanied by adults. 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