As Seebell pointed out, the 2008 law stipulates that minors invading the US from non-contiguous countries cannot just be sent back right off the bat. This was meant to fight sex-traffickers, but the loophole is now being used to open the immigration floodgates. The minors now on the borders are generally not being brought here by sex-traffickers, but by their parents. Later, immigration activists will scream that we have to allow their parents in to "reunite the family." Of course, the family was reunited, before the children left San Salvador and Managua, and the "unite the family" ploy will be used to exploit Americans' nature kindness and gullibility.