Congresswoman Hillary Scholten (D-MI) is clout-chasing and virtue-signaling on the backs of unaccompanied alien children (UAC).

She recently announced on X: “I introduced the Immigration Court Efficiency and Children’s Court Act with @RepDanGoldman to protect migrant children as they navigate our complex immigration system. This week, I joined @SupportKIND and colleagues to share about the bill and our continued work to protect kids.”

Working to protect kids is a goal upon which compassionate Americans can agree.

But aiding and abetting the trafficking of minors - not so much.

A little background . . .

Scholten, before she was elected to the U.S. Congress in 2022, was a staff attorney, from 2017 to 2019, for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC), an enforcement-unfriendly outfit.

For instance, MIRC’s Facebook post about MI Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a reliable America Laster with a rating of F- on the NumbersUSA scorecard, was fluffy and complimentary. Soft on crime, Tlaib is opposed to strengthening border security, interior enforcement, and reducing amnesty enticements.

Same for Scholten who has a score of F on the report card. She has complained of the “chaos” in immigration policy that ensued when Donald J. Trump became President. Because why? He wanted to build a wall, deport foreign rapists, and hire more U.S. Border Patrol personnel?

Helping migrants, young or old, avoid problems with la migra ain’t bad, pay-wise. The Washington Free Beacon revealed that Scholten, who also worked as senior counsel for Miller Johnson, netted more than $200,000 in 2021. This financial tidbit is relevant because, in a political ad, Scholten said that her family (two sons, college professor husband) were making ends meet in tough economic times by repairing her son’s sandals with duct tape and cutting back on air conditioning [insert laughing emoji].

Meanwhile, Scholten’s bipartisan federal legislation would institutionalize a specialized child-friendly court within the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) “focused on the adjudication of unaccompanied children’s removal proceedings.” The Children’s Court would require specific training for judges in “child trafficking” and “trauma-informed practice.”

The bill also requires that this special court “utilize child-appropriate procedures,” as well as coordinate with legal services organizations. The legislation, which claims to address the immigration court backlog, is supported by 40 organizations like KIND (Kids in Need of Defense), whose signage served as the backdrop to Scholten’s recent press conference with Rep. Dan Goldman, a New York Democrat.

The NGO/non-profit is on the dole, bigly. KIND received nearly 40 million bucks in government grants for FY 2022 and trends WOKE, fancy. KIND’s president, Wendy Alice Young, who was affiliated with the National Council of La Raza and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, is compensated to the tune of $529,256.

KIND has hosted a gala at the posh American Museum of Natural History in New York City and was founded by the Microsoft Corporation and actress Angelina Jolie to “address the gap in legal services for unaccompanied children.” 

Obviously not your humble, on-a-shoestring-budget non-profit.

Former immigration judge, Matt O’Brien, Director of Investigations for the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), sees through the dazzlingly misleading spin.

“Our immigration system isn’t broken, the moral compasses of the people who run it are malfunctioning. Any law, policy, or institution that encourages foreign nationals to send their children to the U.S. alone is irresponsible and unethical. And a specialized immigration court for children is just going to become another inefficient federal bureaucracy looking for reasons to perpetuate itself and suck up already scarce resources," O'Brien told Border Hawk.

“Rather than reduce backlogs, it more than likely would become a pipeline used by the anti-borders contingent to create anchor children so entire illegal alien families can remain in the U.S. in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. We haven’t needed a children’s immigration court the entire time the Executive Office for Immigration Review has been in existence, and we don’t need one now. We need Executive Branch officials to begin honoring their oaths of office and start enforcing the laws already on the books.”

Hillary Scholten, however, won’t stop advocating for unnecessary, expensive kiddie courts because it’s a tool for chain migration that will likely produce future Democrat voters. And she unabashedly offers banal soundbites while doing so: “As a mom, I’ll never stop fighting for these vulnerable kids.”

This from the woman whose son’s duct-taped sandals were plastered all over the internet and whose votes for open borders might mean the death of a little migrant girl or two.

You can find Izzy Lyman on Twitter.

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