Holiday surge in child smuggling seen

[deadparrot]

LA JOYA, Texas - Little Douglas Ramirez of Guatemala was crying as the preschooler and his two older sisters, ages 10 and 13, were picked up by border agents last week along a highway just north of the Rio Grande.

That was where they were abandoned by the smuggler who had brought them across the Mexican border to reunite them with their father in the U.S. for the holidays.

Immigration officials in Texas say the annual holiday surge in children crossing the border illegally is on.

Illegal immigrants working in the United States sometimes arrange for friends, relatives or professional smugglers to sneak their youngsters into this country.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_on_re_us/smuggling_children

[lapfog_1]

1. Oh, I had a much different take on this from your headline

Child molesters and Christmas shopping... etc.

[NotGivingUp]

2. yeah, me too