But there were 95.000 in the past 2 years. This surge of children coming across our border has exposed our Nations vulnerability to human smugglers and these transnational criminal organizations. It has shown that inadequate border security can contribute to a humanitarian crisis that endangers the lives of the children who are turned over by their parents to dangerous predators and smuggled into the United States. Lets be clear on this point. Once these children arrive in the United States. our government has a duty to protect them and ensure they are no longer preyed upon by criminals and traffickers. But then we have a responsibility to make sure that if they cant legally stay in the United States because they have no valid claim to asylum or refugee statusour laws need to be enforced until those laws are changed by Congress. The United States could see a new surge of these children pouring across our southern border in the coming months. In fact.
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