DHS officials tell senators migrants are 'renting babies' to cross the border

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By MARIANNE LEVINE 06/06/2019 12:28 PM EDT

Department of Homeland Security officials told senators at a lunch Wednesday that migrants are “renting babies” to speed their trip across the border, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

“I can't believe that this actually happened, that the people down there in Central America or Mexico are renting babies to get across the border and then sending the babies back and renting them again to come back across the border,” Grassley said Thursday.

Grassley said that DHS officials made the claim at the GOP’s weekly Steering Committee lunch. He said he did not request additional evidence but expressed alarm if it is true.

“I hope you guys will help advertise that assuming that the information I heard yesterday was accurate because that is a humanitarian crisis that we have to be concerned about,” Grassley said.



Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/06/dhs-migrants-renting-babies-border-1356307

[trev]

1. Assumption, presumption, propaganda.

I doubt this assertion is true.

[Maeve]

2. Show proof or we know it didn't happen

Smells a lot like rotten eggs...

[DBoon]

5. yes

Sounds like the sort of misinfomration you'd find on Facebook.

Proof or it didn't happen

[Judi Lynn]

3. "Renting babies?" Now I've heard everything. A baby's good for only a couple of trips.

They're not good for more, since they are busy becoming toddlers, etc. There is definitely a shelf-life with babies.

This idea had to be borrowed from Texas' Louis Gohmert.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. We are mad at BP for kidnapping the kids after they cross

yet somehow the immigrants manage to "send back" the babies???

Had no idea grasley was that dumb.

[mac56]

4. I call bullshit.

Propaganda dispersed to sway the weak-minded.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Kind of far fetched. Prove it. NT

[SpankMe]

7. Sounds like a typical Russian planted story. n/t

[hedda_foil]

11. Not Russian. This is pure homegrown Trumpaganda

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. All they need is one case. Like an undocumented migrant charged with rape or murder.

So I woudn't say that this has NEVER happened. I probably has. But its ludicrous to think its not more than a few cases at most. The percent of anyone using this method would be a tiny tiny percent of all immigrants. Like there are thousands of mothers willing to hand over their bables for a few pesos, not knowing if they'll ever see them again.

But the cult is so well conditioned by now, all they need is the headline, and the insinuations by Fox News and others that its a mass organized and successful criminal enterprise. They don't think to far beyond that.

[procon]

9. Steven? Steven Miller is that you lying again?

Go to your room young man! What did I tell you about lying, and why are you always picking on people from Latin America anyway?

Rent-A-Baby... Really, Steven? You're spending all your money at that nasty Rent-A-Boy website again, that's where you came up with this lie, isn't it? Don't lie to me, no one in their right mind would believe such nonsense about babies anyway. What's wrong with you, boy, people will start thinking you're crazy in the head when you tell them these wild stories.

[onetexan]

10. fake news

[rurallib]

12. Chuck Grassley lie?

well, that's a given.

[rickford66]

13. Leave it to the grifters to invent a money making scam like this.

More projection.

[FuzzyRabbit]

14. A republican telling a lie? Say it's not so.

Grassley is a Republican. They lie. All the time, about everything.

They even lie in court. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/hofeller-republican-gerrymandering-north-carolina.html