A heart-wrenching 2-year-old migrant alone at the border is there BECAUSE of terrible Democratic policies

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are not monsters.But their immigration policies are monstrous.The latest evidence of this is the toddler from El Salvador in a pink jacket found by Texas authorities Sunday on the border near Eagle Pass.Who hands their toddler over to strangers to take her more than 1,500 miles to the US border, with only a phone number contact scrawled on a yellow Post-It note?People lured into doing so by the Biden administration’s border and immigration policies, that’s who.This isn’t to absolve the parents for their reprehensible conduct.They are apparently illegal aliens in the US who thought this was a good idea.But the only reason it might seem like a good idea is that a huge number of other unaccompanied alien children (UACs) have been let in and released, without any legal consequences for the illegal-alien parents or other relatives paying to have them smuggled.Over the past four years, more than half a million unaccompanied minors have illegally come across the border.

Some of them are 16- and 17-year-olds simply coming to work.But a shocking number are like the toddler in the pink jacket, exposed to great danger on their way north, and to potential trafficking and exploitation once in the US.Biden’s policies aren’t the only reason for this.In 2008 Congress passed a law intended to protect underage illegal aliens from sex- and labor-trafficking.In a tragic irony, the law has actually incentivized more trafficking.

Specifically, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) said that illegal alien minors who were not from next-door countries (i.e., from everywhere but Mexico and Canada) could not simply be returned to their home countries.Instead, they had to immediately be handed over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the Department of Health and Human Services, which was to place them with a “sponsor” in the United States while their cases were considered by immigra...