Kidnapped Boy’s Mother Reportedly an Illegal Alien

Two weeks ago, armed gunmen broke into the house of three year old Briant Rodriguez in San Bernardino, CA. He was forcibly taken from his mother who was told that the boy was going to be taken to Mexico where he would be killed. These events triggered an Amber Alert and sent local police, FBI agents and police in Mexico on a chase to find young Briant. For two weeks there was no word on him. Then, this past weekend he was found wondering the streets in Mexicali in Baja Mexico by a Mexican police officer. That officer brought the boy to children’s authorities who discovered who he was. Case solved! Well not so fast. It turns out that Briant’s Mother may have been breaking US law by being here in the first place. And better yet, the FBI assisted her in remaining in the country.

 

Bryant’s mother, Maria Rosalina Millan was escorted to the border to collect her son. She was escorted to the town of Calexico, a California town on the border directly across from Mexicali, by FBI agents. Upon arrival there, Millan refused to cross the border. But the FBI was more than happy to cross.

 

Some news reports in the US said that Millan had been unable to cross due to a paperwork snafu.  One run by ABC did refer to immigration issues. But none of the reports that I have seen said anything about Millan being an illegal alien. That is until Gillian Flaccus, a reporter for the Associated Press, filed a story in which she wrote, “Gerardo Franco, a spokesman for the Baja California state prosecutor's office, said he understood Millan was not reunited with her son in Mexicali because she is an illegal immigrant in the U.S. and was afraid to cross the border.”

 

There is no doubt that the United States can’t tolerate kidnapping. Furthermore, not only should young Briant have been reunited with his mother, but he should have had the opportunity to return to the United States. He is an American citizen that was born in California. But his mother, who is apparently not a US citizen, should not have been given any preferred treatment.

 

The precedent set by this case is something that should not be allowed to stand. The FBI actually assisted Millan in breaking US law. They did this in two ways. First, they were in her company and failed to arrest her for immigration violations. Secondly, they crossed the border to “negotiate” the return of young Briant to his mother! What did they need to negotiate? The chances are that if Millan has walked into the police station in Mexico to claim her son, he would have been returned to her on the spot. But of course that would have required her to cross the border and she might not – rather, should not – have been let back into the United States… where by her very presence she is breaking the law! Since when does the FBI get to give a “free pass” to a criminal simply because they don’t like a particular law?