President Donald Trump’s deputies have reformed the Democrats’ 2008 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) program to shrink migrant smuggling by labor traffickers and by illegal migrant parents.
“This is another big win,” said the Immigration Accountability Project. “It would mean fewer children handed over to sex or labor traffickers.”
But Democrat-affiliated pro-migration groups lament the reforms, which will require government officials to verify the legal or illegal status of people who volunteer to “sponsor” the many youth migrants who are welcomed across the border and housed in government-funded hostels.
“The real goal of this effort is … to use custody and care data on these children to track any undocumented adults supporting them,” complained Jeff Nesbit, a pro-migration deputy in President Joe Biden’s administration. “Sadly,
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