In Fiscal Year 2017, the federal government referred nearly 41,000 unaccompanied minor border crossers to the Unaccompanied Alien Children program which is facilitated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Data provided to Breitbart News reveals that each unaccompanied minor costs the federal government about $34,660 annually. This is a higher standard of living per child than the roughly 13 million American children who continue to live below the U.S. poverty line.
In 2016, there were about 13.2 million American children under the age of 18 living in poverty. These are U.S. children, for example, whose parents or guardians -in a household of four - earn less than $24,500 a year.
Comment: A serious investigation and debate about the real reasons why masses of people, to include children, from countries south of the United States illegally emigrate never seems to take place in the mainstream, whether in the media or the government. The United States, in conjunction with international organizations, such as the IMF and World Bank, has used the 'shock doctrine', as described by Naomi Klein, to pillage, exploit, corrupt, control, impoverish and force into debt many countries as part of foreign policy. This benefits the United States' imperial ambitions, solidifies the various intelligence agencies' power and funding and enriches banks and corporations. The conditions of countries undergoing the 'shock doctrine' deteriorate to the point where people living there are made willing or are forced to leave. Where are they going to go? The United States where they might have a modicum of possibility of having a better or stable life for family and children. Then the illegal immigration topic, where the real story is never explained to American citizens, whether liberal or conservative, is used to divide those with citizenship into warring camps about what to do about the situation, who is to blame... and on and on it goes until people are at each other's throats instead of seeing and acting against the real source of the problem.