The Border Patrol continues doing what it can, with no policy help from Washington, to stem the tide of human trafficking that has exploded across the border. In a Facebook post, the Laredo sector of the Border Patrol reports that it busted three human smuggling sites in half a day.
At the same time, the Washington Examiner reports that the Biden administration is holding more than five times the number of unaccompanied children the Trump administration held, when it was accused of having of a “humanitarian crisis” with “concentration camps” on the border.
Nearly 25,000 migrant children were in the custody of the government, apart from their families, in early May.
The number of unaccompanied migrant children in the federal government’s care is at an all-time high, easily eclipsing the corresponding total in 2018 when the Trump administration pursued a policy that led to the intentional separation of children from their families, eliciting major controversy.
The situation underscores the severity of the crisis facing President Joe Biden early in his administration and the moral quandary he faces.