Article snippet: Posted at 7:04 pm on July 1, 2017 by streiff Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has been chipping away at the morass of non-enforcement and neglect that was Obama’s answer to border security, a policy that, oddly enough, did a lot to create the electoral wave that washed Donald Trump up in Washington, DC. One of the big things he has accomplished is that not only has he decreased the number of illegals attempting to cross our southern border, there has been a 20+% drop in the number of unaccompanied minors attempting to cross into the United States. Of all the actions that Obama took along the border, the encouraging of unaccompanied minors to try to make it into the United States was one of the most cruel and callous. We will never know how many minors were raped, murdered, and disappeared into the sex trafficking underworlds–or how many hundreds of millions of dollars were paid to “coyotes” to guide the minors, much of which ends up in the hands of drug cartels. In April, Homeland Security began running an ad campaign in Central America to try to discourage parents from trusting their children to human traffickers. Now the administration is taking a more aggressive posture to further deter parents who are in the US illegally from paying to have their kids smuggled into the United States. The story is a little confusing and the lede here appears to conflate two different initiatives. In the past, when a minor was apprehended and a parent was located to take... Link to the full article to read more