The story that I am about to share with you, is unlike the other stories about illegal immigrants, because unlike the others, these group of immigrants weren’t trying to hide, they wanted to be noticed and they wanted to get their message across.
A group of Honduran girls, some of which are as young as 14 years old, illegally crossed the borders of the United States. Not long after, more Hondurans admitted to crossing the Rio Grande to get here. The group of girls quickly rose to 22 children, where most of which traveled without any adult supervision at all. They were just that determined to get over the States to see their loved ones.
One of the girls said, “because I want to see my parents in Austin”, she illegally migrated to the U.S.
According to CNN, the girls were not looking to sneak in the country by any means, it was more of an announcement of their presence here.
Chris Cabrera, a leader of the local chapter of the National Border Control Council, shared that many others are turning themselves in on a daily basis. “And I mean, hundreds at a time”, Cabrera said.
The immigrants are apparently creating rafts to cross the Rio Grande, where they are also equipped with directions on how to follow the river until they get to the Border Patrol Site, where they would surrender.
Cabrera also mentioned that the immigrant children know that once they get to the station at the Border, they will be handed paperwork and allowed into the United States.
According to the U.S. law, it prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from immediately deporting children, if they are not from Mexico or Canada. They are turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services, within 72 hours of them being taken into custody.
In most cases, the children will almost always be released to their relatives that are in the United States.
The problem however, is that upon their release, they are appointed a court date, where 95-97% of them will never show up to.
The numbers are said to be staggering and the estimate for 2014 is expected to rise. The estimate is now more than 60,000.
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