If an illegal border crosser shows up with a child in the United States they are pretty much processed and released and asked nicely to show up for court some eight months later. The overwhelming majority never do.

The reason is a 1997 court ruling, Flores v. Reno, which says that the children of illegal border crossers cannot be held in adult prisons with their parents for more than 20 days.

We have come to discover that the cartels and human traffickers take children and then rent them to border crossers for thousands of dollars. After they are released the cartels retrieve the child go back to Mexico and do it all over again.

Loopholes in US law that end up endangering these children can be fixed easily by Congress, but Democrats have dug in their heals and refuse to. The fact that dozens of dead children are found along the border every month doesn’t seem to phase them and/or they just scream that it is somehow Donald Trump’s fault.

Daily Mail UK:

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement pilot of new rapid DNA testing at the border has found that nearly a third of those tested were not biologically related to the children in their custody.

ICE conducted the pilot for a few days earlier this month in El Paso and McAllen, Texas, finding about 30 percent of those tested were not related to the children they claimed were their own, an official told the Washington Examiner.

The official said that these were not cases of step-fathers or adoptive parents.

‘Those were not the case. In these cases, they are misrepresented as family members,’ the official said.

This report is nothing new but is a great update. While murder rates were falling almost in half in the industrialized world during the 1990’s civilian gun ownership in the United States doubled.

Washington Times:

The number of concealed carry handgun permits has skyrocketed since President Obama was first elected, while murder rates have fallen, according to a new report released Wednesday.

Since 2007, the number of concealed handgun permits has soared from 4.6 million to over 12.8 million, and murder rates have fallen from 5.6 killings per 100,000 people to just 4.2, about a 25 percent drop, according to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center.

And the number of permits issued is increasing faster every year. Over 1.7 million new permits were issued last year — a 15.4 percent increase over 2013, the largest such single-year jump ever, according to the report from the center led by President John R. Lott and research director John E. Whitley.

The number of concealed carriers is likely even higher, since permits are not required in eight states.

In Florida and Texas permit holders are convicted of misdemeanors or felonies at one-sixth the rate that police officers are convicted, according to the report.

Data on gun sales and recent opinion polls indicate that more people are warming up to the idea of gun ownership. A 2000 Gallup Poll found that 35 percent of Americans thought that owning a gun made their home safer. By 2014 that number soared to 63 percent.

A Dec. 2014 Pew Research poll found, for the first time in more than two decades, there was more support for gun rights than gun control, with 52 percent of respondents saying it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46 percent said it was more important to control gun ownership.

NCIS background checks increased from 11.2 million to 21 million between 2007 and 2014, according to the report, and the sale of guns has skyrocketed over the last two years. About 14 million guns were sold between 2008 and 2011, while over 20 million were sold between 2012 and 2013, and about a quarter were sold to first-time buyers, Mr. Keene said.

Perfect example of why you should support the Second Amendment. Our right to bear arms is protection from our own government. Nazis…. yuck. Horrible human beings. From the book “The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank. Story of Six Women Who Knew Her.”