Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren called for repealing the decades-old law criminalizing unauthorized border crossing this Tuesday claiming she would be in favor of decriminalizing illegal crossing of the U.S. border.

Warren joins former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama and 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro, who also believes immigration courts should be the only ones with legal control over immigration enforcement at the border, according to HuffPost.

“I agree with Secretary Castro,” Warren said. “We should not be criminalizing mamas and babies trying to flee violence at home or trying to build a better future. We must pass comprehensive immigration reform that is in line with our values, creates a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants including our DREAMers, and protects our borders.”

What both Democrats failed to mention when talking about those “mothers and their children” was the findings from a pilot program that ICE conducted for a few days earlier this month in El Paso and McAllen, Texas.

DNA tests from the program revealed that around one third of those tested were not related to the children they claimed were their own, according to reports. The official said that these were not cases of step-fathers or adoptive parents.

This all comes as apprehensions of immigrants have increased every month since January, according to the Daily Caller. There have also been over 100,000 encounters at the southern border in both March and April, putting the current border crisis on track to be the worst it has been in a decade.

The House passed a vote on June 4 that would grant protection from deportation to illegal immigrants and give millions a path to permanent citizenship status.

Several other prominent politicians ― Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz), Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) ― have also backed repealing the law criminalizing illegal entry. Immigration enforcement should belong exclusively to the civil system, they say.

Democrats have taken the stance now to put illegal immigrants first before legal immigrants who try to do things the right way and even American citizens.

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