The immigrant from Guatemala had the minor smuggled into the country, gamed the immigration system into handing her over to him and forced her to have sexual relations with him.
By Catholics for Catholics
A federal judge sentenced an illegal immigrant to prison for allegedly sexually abusing a teenage girl who was placed under his care during the immigration system of the Biden administration.
The judge also sentenced Juan Tiul Xi, a Guatemalan with smuggling crimes, as well as for coaxing the girl and her family into sending the teenager north from her home country. According to a story by The Washington Times, it is a “worst-case horror story” among hundreds of thousands of migrant minors who deluged the U.S. under the lax Biden administration’s immigration system, subsequently getting “lost” in the scheme of things.
Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. last week sentenced Xi to an additional 26 months to a federal penitentiary. Xi was already serving two consecutive four-year sentences for two sexual battery convictions in state court in Ohio stemming from abuse of the migrant girl.
Xi admitted in court that he swayed the family of a 14-year-old Guatemalan girl to send her north with smugglers to cross the border illegally, and then to fake being his sister so the Biden administration would short-circuit the usual background checks and turn over the girl to Xi to act as her sponsor.
But what really happened, according to The Times’ story, is that the Biden administration ceded a victim to an abuser.
Xi exacted that the migrant girl worked to repay the smugglers, bullied the minor by telling her she would get her deported if she complained and forced her to have sex with him as part of the payment. He impregnated her and then obligated her to have an abortion, prosecutors told the court.
But Xi did not stop there. As he was abusing the girl, he applied to the Office of Refugee Resettlement to sponsor at least four other migrant children, known in government as unaccompanied alien children, or UACs.
He was approved in at least one of those cases, though court documents do not reveal that child’s fate.
Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies, said Xi’s case highlighted just how easy it was to scam the immigration system — with ominous consequences.
“This is another sickening case that illustrates the Biden administration’s shamefully negligent policies for handling UACs, and the harm to children that results,” she said.
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