“I’ve never seen an actual case of it despite the government bringing it up several times,” a migrant rights advocate said.
The secretary of homeland security told members of Congress on Wednesday that her agency had uncovered “recycling rings” where children were used multiple times to help undocumented immigrants enter the United States by claiming to be part of a family.
“We have even uncovered ‘recycling rings’ where innocent young people are used multiple times to help aliens gain illegal entry,” Kirstjen Nielsen told the House Homeland Security Committee. “As a nation we simply cannot stand for this. We must fix the system.”
Nielsen appeared before the committee to discuss border security, at a time when agents are apprehending a record number of families at the border and the Trump administration is still facing backlash over last summer’s “zero tolerance” policy that resulted in the systemic separation of families at the border.
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