DHS says Trump administration not taking youngsters away from dad and mom

[ad_1] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is firing again after it says the Venezuelan authorities unfold false info that the Trump administration was separating youngsters from dad and mom who're members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang (TdA).

A spokesperson for DHS shared a information launch that mentioned, regardless of the Venezuelan authorities claiming the U.S. "kidnapped" a baby, "the reality is DHS took motion as a result of each her dad and mom are a part of Tren De Aragua."

The kid in query's father, Maiker Espinoza-Escalona, is a lieutenant of Tren De Aragua who oversees homicides, drug gross sales, kidnappings, extortion, intercourse trafficking and operates a torture home, the company mentioned.

DHS added that, along with the daddy, the kid’s mom, Yorely Escarleth Bernal Inciarte, oversees the recruitment of younger ladies for drug smuggling and prostitution.

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President Donald Trump and deported migrants in Colombia (Jim Watsonb/AFP; the Colombian authorities.)

"These felony unlawful aliens entered the nation illegally and had closing orders of elimination from a choose," DHS mentioned.

DHS mentioned the kid was taken off the deportation flight manifest for her security and welfare via a partnership with the Division of Well being and Human Providers. The kid stays within the care and custody of the Workplace of Refugee Resettlement and was positioned with a foster household, the company mentioned.

The company added that "dad and mom are requested in the event that they wish to be eliminated with their youngsters or ICE will place the kids with somebody the dad or mum designates."

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"On this case, the dad or mum acknowledged they wished to be eliminated with the kids," DHS mentioned.

"Because of the violent felony actions of the dad and mom, together with working a torture home, intercourse trafficking and kidnapping, the kid was faraway from their custody. We is not going to permit this youngster to be abused and proceed to be uncovered to felony exercise that endangers her security." — Senior DHS official

The division thanked Trump for eradicating the TdA gang member from the nation.

"President Trump and Secretary Noem take their accountability to guard youngsters severely and can proceed to work with federal legislation enforcement and the Division of Well being and Human Providers to make sure that youngsters are protected from abuse, sexual exploitation and trafficking," the assertion added.

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DHS mentioned the "earlier administration allowed many youngsters who came across the border unaccompanied to be positioned with sponsors who had been truly smugglers and intercourse traffickers."

"In lower than 100 days, Secretary Noem and Secretary Kennedy have already reunited over 5,000 unaccompanied youngsters with a relative or protected guardian," DHS mentioned.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin joined Fox Information Channel's "The Massive Weekend Present" final week and shared her response to the far-left media attempting to criticize the Trump administration for deporting a 2-year-old citizen, although DHS says the mom wished to take the toddler together with her when she was deported to Honduras.

Venezuelan migrants deported from the US arrive at Simón Bolívar Worldwide Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela, Feb. 20. (AP Photograph/Cristian Hernandez)

"The mom had the choice that if she wished to take each youngsters again together with her to Honduras," McLaughlin defined.

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"This is quite common observe, however I do suppose it additionally reveals that this administration, we actually care concerning the security of those youngsters. And we have put collectively additional safeguards, equivalent to biometrics testing and DNA, to make sure that the kids are literally youngsters or kinfolk of those guardians and oldsters, as a result of we have seen approach an excessive amount of of drug mules, human traffickers, intercourse traffickers exploiting these migrant youngsters for their very own disgusting achieve."

Stepheny Value is a author for Fox Information Digital and Fox Enterprise. She covers subjects together with lacking individuals, homicides, nationwide crime instances, unlawful immigration, and extra. Story ideas and concepts may be despatched to stepheny.value@fox.com