White House commits to welcoming children at border despite 100 percent increase in crossings

A reporter from Univision then brought up the recent occurrences of unaccompanied migrant children being found wandering in the desert on their own, specifically the harrowing journey of a 10-year-old boy who was found sobbing and alone by CBP.

The Nicaraguan child, the reporter said, had travelled with his mother to the border, and they were not allowed to stay in the US. Both were deported to Mexico, though they hail from Central America. Once in Mexico, the boy’s mother was kidnapped. The boy, the reporter notes, was freed after a relative paid his ransom.
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“This child had been deported with his mom days prior, his mom is kidnapped in Mexico, he was able to free himself through a family member who paid ransom and that’s how he ended up back in the US. So I have two questions for you,” she said.

“Why does the US government continue to deport these people back to Mexico to dangerous situations and not to their countries of origin, and the second question is the President back in October 2020 in a conversation with Univision said he would grant a deportation moratorium to Nicaraguans as well as as Venezuelans and Cubans, as well as other groups, and not for Nicaraguans, do you have an update on that?”

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