Commentary
America doesn’t need the proposed lame-duck legislation from Sens Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) that would extend Title 42 and grant amnesty to a super-sized new population of several million illegal aliens, in addition to those already enrolled in Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Reforms shouldn’t take place until the new Congress holds oversight hearings about the lack of immigration enforcement by the Obama and Biden administrations, resulting in modern-day slavery: the commodification of unaccompanied minors trafficked for labor and sex work by their non-family sponsors.
The claims of supporting Dreamers hide an ugly truth, trapping countless young migrants in a nightmarish enslavement where they become mere products. They undertake the dangerous journey to the United States for promises of the American Dream—only to be victimized and abandoned. Trapped in the meatpacking, agricultural, hospitality, and sex industries, these unaccompanied minors are a bonanza for human traffickers, and a moral dilemma for conscientious citizens and humanitarians who abhor this sacrificial system. It’s modern-day slavery….