Migrant Family Separation: Cutting Through the Anti-Trump Agitprop

Soon, open border advocates will step up their agitprop against the new Trump Administration for alleged migrant family separation at the U.S. border. A number of broader points about the family separation phenomenon are worth remembering.

1. The overwhelming majority of migrant family separation decisions are not made at the U.S. border by DHS. They are made by parents or others — including cartel criminals — in home countries.
2. Daily, thousands of border violators abandon some or all of their children in their home countries to make the trek into the U.S. illegally to find work. Thousands of others send their children to the U.S. alone or with cartel coyotes, and follow them later.
3. Daily, biological parents already illegally present in the U.S. refuse to come to the border to take custody of their children...
4. Leading incentives for migrant family separation in the home country include the astonishing cornucopia of U.S. work permits available to border violators, and lawless programs established by U.S. executive fiat...
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6. For example, cartels, non-government organizations, and foreign officials encourage parents to separate themselves from their children at the border and send their children into the U.S. alone to surrender to DHS and leverage U.S. legal advantages afforded to unaccompanied migrant children.
7. Another contributor to migrant family separation in the home country is the border-killing “non-return” principle (also called non-refoulement) contained in the 1951 UN Refugee Convention (or treaty). The principle was imposed on our nation by our own government...
8. ...  To stop incentivizing migrant family separation, our new president should denounce the 1967 Protocol and repudiate the non-return principle....
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10. Finally, another family separation enabler is the lack of DNA testing...