Rubio: Central American Leaders Say Human Traffickers Used DACA to Recruit Children to Enter US Illegally

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said that the Obama administration’s push to give legal status to some illegal aliens is at least in part responsible for the thousands of illegal alien children that have been streaming across the U.S. border with Mexico from Central America over the last couple years.

President Obama’s executive action on immigration “is not just a poison,” Rubio said, “but increasingly put us in a very precarious position, because there is strong evidence backed up by the fact that I’ve had leaders from the northern triangle in Central America – Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador – tell me that DACA was used by trafficking groups in the northern triangle to recruit people to send their children here illegally.”

At the National Review Institute’s summit on Friday in Washington, D.C., Rubio was asked about the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, which Rubio sponsored. The Senate passed the bill, and if made law, it would give at least 11 million illegal aliens a pathway to citizenship.

Rubio was asked if there was...
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