Illegal Immigrants Have Kids Smuggled In

[Beowulf]

TIJUANA, Mexico - <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = AT /><AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>Alejandro Valenzuela, a loquacious 12-year-old, memorized the details of a borrowed U.S. birth certificate and jumped in the front seat of his smuggler's car. <AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>Tired from a two-day bus trip to the border from Mexico's central state of Jalisco, Alejandro soon fell asleep. He was awakened by the flashlight of a U.S. immigration inspector.
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>"I told him in English, 'I'm an American citizen,' but he kept asking questions. That's all the English I know," Alejandro said as he rested at a child welfare office back in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>Alejandro is one of a rising number of children trying to sneak into the United States without their parents. Some hide in cars or try to pass themselves off as U.S. citizens, while others ride inner tubes across the Rio Grande or trek through the harsh Arizona desert.
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>Since October, about 70,000 children have been detained along the Mexican border, a 5 percent increase over the same period a year earlier, the U.S. Border Patrol says.
http://kevxml2adsl.verizon.net/_1_2GNETO103PPT7J__vzn.dsl/apnws/story.htm?kcfg=apart&feed=ap&sin=D8HF9IH09&qcat=usnews&passqi=&top=1&ran=16883

I'm sure these kids are working the jobs Americans won't work!! :flame:

[Rink]

The more kids in America the more on the welfare system, the more the illegals can milk the system for all its worth, more kids = more money to them.

[Wolfcounsel]

And still the public baboons pick their noses or dig in their butts and say the problem is under scrutiny, or some crap like that.

[Kathy29]

There should be a major announcement that any child caught being smuggled into the country will not be returned to their families but put up for adoption and they will never see any of their families again.

[Rhino]

This is nothing new.

[Lazarus]

I suspect that many, if not the majority, of these kids are street children who have been surviving without parents for years... To them this run to America is like running to the Promised Land...

And for them to be going to this kind of effort to con their way in, they are Criminals-in-training for having grown up living in the streets - Its the only education they have and you can be sure they will apply it freely in this new, fruitful hunting ground...

[uncommon1]

So they come here, can't find work, and end up stealing to get by. Just what we need; millions of thieving Mexicans.