Migrant ‘Rents’ a Boy to Cross Border as Fake Family: DOJ

Border Patrol agents apprehend illegal aliens who have just crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into Penitas, Tex., on March 21, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

A Guatemalan man allegedly paid about $130 to “rent” an eight-year-old boy from another family so that when he crossed the U.S. border, he could pretend the boy was his son.

Guatemalan migrant Maynor Velasquez Molina said he was told it would be “easier to get into the United States with a child,” according to a criminal complaint sighted by the Arizona Daily Star.